THE CONTINENTAL ARMY OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF

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Bill Braham

Continental Army 1775-76

Data from Mollo, Zlatich part 1

1. 1st Continental Regiment (Mollo & McGregor show predominantly brown/drab colours for hunt-ing shirt and trousers based on entries in Lefferts)

2. 6th Continental Regiment

3. 7th Continental Regiment (‘Marblehead Regt’; sailors dress, mixed blue and brown coats)

4. 8th Continental Regiment

5. 12th Continental Regiment (also blue faced buff according to Zlatich & Copeland)

6. 15th Continental Regiment

7. 14th Continental Regiment

8. 18th Continental Regiment

9. 26th Continental Regiment (with inset of grenadier cap)

Additional Continental Regiments 1777 - 1779

Data from Mollo, Zlatich parts 1 & 2, Elting.

1. Col. Webb’s Additional Regiment

2. Col. Hartley’s Additional Regiment

3. Col. Spencer’s Additional Regiment

4. Col. Lee’s Additional Regiment

5. Col. Henley’s Additional Regiment

6. Col. Sherburne’s Additional Regiment

7. Col. Hazen’s 2nd Canadian Regiment, light company 1778. Inset alternative interpretation of collar & lapels after Mollo.

8. This figure is based on the von Closen drawing from the Yorktown campaign in 1781. Peviously it has been attributed to a Pennsylvania Regiment 1781 and the 2nd Canadian Regiment. It may be nei-

THE STATE TROOPS OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF

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New England Regiments

Data from Mollo & McGregor, Zlatich part 1, Zlatich part 2

1. 3rd Massachusetts Regiment

2. 8th Massachusetts Regiment

3. 14th Massachusetts Regiment

4. 2nd New Hampshire (1777)

5. Patterson’s Massachusetts Battalion (1775)

6. 1st Connecticut Regiment (1777)

7. 4th Connecticut Regiment (1777)

8. 2nd Rhode Island Regiment (1778)

9. Rhode Island Regiment, light infantry Yorktown campaign (1781)

10. Light Company, Massachusetts Regiment (1781)

11. Warner’s Additional Continental Regiment (‘Green Mountain Boys’)

New York Continentals

Data from Lefferts, Mollo, Zlatich part 1, Troiani

1. 1st New York 1775

2. 2nd New York 1775 (Lefferts; blue faced crimson, Zlatich)

3. 2nd New York 1776

4. 3rd New York 1775

5. 3rd New York 1776

6. 4th New York 1775

7. 4th New York 1778

8. 5th New York 1777

Delaware Troops

Data from Mollo, Elting & Zlatich pt 1

Dover Light Infantry Co, Kent County Militia (1776-77). Served with Phildadelphia Associators Light Infantry in Trenton – Princeton operations.

2nd Battalion Kent County Militia 1775

Light Infantry

Newcastle County Militia, Lower Regiment 1775-76

Insets details for Upper and Middle Regiments, Newcastle County Militia

Haslett’s/Hall’s Delaware Regiment (1776-1778 and as 23 March 1779 regulations)

Delaware Regiment (1779 lottery coat)

Delaware Regiment Southern Campaign 1780-1781

Maryland and Delaware Troops

Data from Mollo & McGregor, Lefferts, Elting Troiani & Zlatich pt 1.

4th Company Maryland State Troops 1776

Officer, Maryland Regiment 1776 (hunting shirt probably worn in the field)

Maryland Regiment 1776 (hunting shirts and coats mixed according to Lefferts)

Maryland Regiment 1776 (hunting shirts and coats mixed according to Lefferts)

1st Maryland Regiment 1777

3rd Maryland Regiment 1777

6th Maryland Regiment 1777

1st Maryland Regiment 1781

2nd Maryland (State) Regiment 1781

Pennsylvania Troops

Data from Mollo, Elting

1. 1st Pennsylvania Battalion

2. 3rd Pennsylvania Battalion

3. 5th Pennsylvania Regiment

4. 7th Pennsylvania Regiment

5. 9th Pennsylvania Regiment

6. 11th Pennsylvania Regiment

7. Pennsylvania Battalion 1781

8. Pennsylvania State Regiment 1776 - 78

Philadelphia Associators (Pennsylvania militia)

Data from Mollo, Zlatich part 1 and Elting

1. Philadelphia City Troop of Horse 1776, inset sddlecloth

2. 1st Regiment Associators

3. 2nd Regiment Associators, 5th Regiment Associators

4. 2nd Regiment Associators, drummer

5. Light Infantry Company, 3rd Regiment Associators inset basedon Mollo’s interpretation

6. 3rd Regiment Associators

7. 3rd Regiment Associators, drummer

8. 4th Regiment Associators

9. Quaker Associator Company

10. Ranger Company

Virginia Regiments

Data from Lefferts, Mollo, Troiani, Elting

1. 2nd Virginia 1775 – 1778

2. 3rd Virginia 1778 3. 5th Virginia 1777 – 1778

4. 6th Virginia c.1776 Officers, other ranks no red fringes

5. 6th Virginia c.1777

7. 6th Virginia c.1778

8. 7th Virginia 1778

9. 8th Virginia 1778

10. 9th Virginia 1778 11. 13th Virginia 1777 – 1778

Virginia Militia and State Troops

Data from Culpeper Minute Battalion 1775

1. Other ranks

2. 2. Officer Taliaferro’s Company

3. 3. Officer Pickett’s Company

4. 4. Fairfax County Militia 1774 – 1775

5. Virginia State Artillery Regiment 1778

6. Virginia State Regiment 1778

Crockett’s Western Battalion Virginia State Troops 1780 – 1782

7. Officer 8. Other ranks

9. Illinois Regiment, Virginia State Troops 1780

10. Posey’s Continental Detachment 1782

Miscellaneous Units

Data from Mollo, Zlatich part 1, Troiani

1. 3rd New Jersey Regiment 1776

2. 3rd New Jersey Regiment 1777 3-6. Regimental coats made up for North Carolina regiments in 1776, precise regimental attribution unknown

7. 10th North Carolina Regiment 1778

8. 2nd South Carolina Regiment, inset detail of badge on cap front. 1st had a similar uniform as did the 3rd South Carolina 1777-78

9. Continental Marines

CONTINENTAL DRAGOONS OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF

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Continental Light Dragoons

(left to right, top to bottom): Sources: Lefferts, Moll & McGregory, Zlatich (Osprey MAA 273 & 290), Troiani et al. (1998)

1 1st Continental Light Dragoons (Bland’s)

2 2nd Continental Light Dragoons (Sheldon’s)

3 2nd Regiment Connecticut Light Horse (Militia)

4 3rd Continental Light Dragoons (Baylor’s)

5 4th Continental Light Dragoons (Moylan’s)

6 Virginia Light Horse (alternative uniform for 1st Continental Light Dragoons)

Continental Light Dragoons 2

1 Armand’s Legion

2 Light Dragoon as for 1779 Regulations

3 Pulaski’s legion (based on Mollo & McGregor rather than Zlatich & Copeland)

4 Light Dragoon for 1782 Regulations

5 Lee’s Legion 1780

6 Lee’s Legion 1782?

7 Lee’s Legion: McLane’s Infantry Company 1779