THE CONTINENTAL ARMY OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 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)
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THE CONTINENTAL ARMY OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF
INDEPENDENCE
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
INDEPENDENCE
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)