New Orleans American order of battle

The following units and commanders of the American armed forces under Andrew Jackson fought at the Battle of New Orleans during War of 1812.

Abbreviations used

Military Rank

• MG = Major General
• BG = Brigadier General
• Col = Colonel
• Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
• Maj = Major
• Cpt = Captain
• Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Other

• w = wounded
• k = killed
• m = missing

American forces

7th Military District: MG Andrew Jackson

General Staff

• Volunteer Chief of Engineers: Arsene Lacarriere Latour
• Adviser to General Jackson: Brigadier General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert
• Aides-de-camp: Abner Lawson Duncan, John Randolph Grymes, Edward Livingston
• Aide-de-camp and judge advocate, Major Auguste Davezac

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others
Left Wing[1]      MG William Carroll	Carroll's Brigade[2]      MG William Carroll	1st Regiment West Tennessee Militia: Col William Metcalf 2nd Regiment West Tennessee Militia: Col John Cocke 3rd Regiment West Tennessee Militia: Col James Raulston
	Coffee's Brigade[3]      BG John Coffee	1st Regiment West Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen: Col Robert Dyer 2nd Regiment West Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen: Col Thomas Williamson Jugeant’s Choctaws: Major Pierre Jugeant
	Adair's Brigade[4]      BG John Adair	Slaughter’s Kentucky Militia: Ltc Gabriel Slaughter Gray’s Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc John Davis (detached to West Bank) Mitchusson’s Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc William Mitchusson
Right Wing[5]      Col George T. Ross	Louisiana Militia and Volunteers[6]	Plauché’s Uniform Militia: Maj Jean Baptiste Plauché Lacoste’s Free Men of Color: Major Pierre Lacoste Daquin’s Free Men of Color: Major Louis Daquin City Rifles: Captain Thomas Beale Baratarians (gunners from Jean Lafitte's privateer crews)
	U.S Regular Army[7]	7th U.S. Infantry: Major Henry D. Peire 44th U.S. Infantry: Col George T. Ross U.S. Marines: Maj Daniel Carmick Detachment, 1st U.S. Dragoons
Reporting directly	West Bank[8]      BG David B. Morgan	Naval Battalion: Commodore Daniel Patterson Louisiana Militia Battalion: Maj Paul Arnaud Grey's Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc John Davis Additional Reinforcements from East Bank: General Humbert
	Reserves[9]	Mississippi Dragoons: Maj Thomas Hinds Detachment, 1st U.S. Dragoons: Ogden Battalion, Kentucky Militia: Harrison

Resources

1. Jean Lafitte National Historic Park Historic Resource Study
2. Regimental Histories Units During the War of 1812
3. Regimental Histories Units During the War of 1812
4. Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, Kentucky in the War of 1812, pages 134-135
5. Jean Lafitte National Historic Park Historic Resource Study
6. Tim Pickens, New Orleans: 1815, page 37
7. Tim Pickens, New Orleans: 1815, page 37
8. Tim Pickens, New Orleans: 1815, page 37
9. Tim Pickens, New Orleans: 1815, page 37