Abbreviations used
Military rank
- LTG = Lieutenant General
- MG = Major General
- BG = Brigadier General
- Col = Colonel
- Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
- Maj = Major
- Cpt = Captain
Other
- (w) = wounded
- (mw) = mortally wounded
- (k) = killed in action
British forces
LTG Charles, Earl Cornwallis
MG Alexander Leslie, second in command
| Brigade | Regiments and Others |
| Right Wing
MG Alexander Leslie
| - 1st Guards Battalion: Ltc Chapple Norton
- 2nd Battalion, 71st Regiment of Foot, Fraser's Highlanders: Cpt Robert Hutcheson
- Regiment von Bose: Maj Johann Christian du Buy
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| Left Wing
Ltc James Webster (mw)
| - 23rd Regiment of Foot: Cpt Thomas Peter
- 33rd Regiment of Foot: Ltc James Webster (mw), Cpt James Campbell
- Light Infantry Company (Guards): Cpt William Maynard (w)
- Ansbach-Bayreuth Jäger Company: Cpt Friedrich Wilhelm von Röder
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| Reserve
BG Charles O'Hara (w)
Ltc James Stuart (k)
BG Charles O'Hara
| - 2nd Guards Battalion: Ltc James Stuart (k)
- Grenadier Guards Company
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| Cavalry
Ltc Banastre Tarleton (w)
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| Royal Artillery
Lt John Macleod
| - 1 (or 2) six-pounders
- 2 three-pounders
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American forces
MG Nathanael Greene
BG Isaac Huger, second in command (w)
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others |
| Continentals | Maryland Brigade
Col Otho Williams
| - 1st Maryland Regiment: Col John Gunby (w), Ltc John Eager Howard
- 2nd Maryland Regiment: Ltc Benjamin Ford
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| Virginia Brigade
BG Isaac Huger (w)
| - Campbell's Virginia Battalion: Ltc Richard Campbell
- Green’s Virginia Battalion: Col John Green
- Hawes' (formerly Buford's) Virginia Battalion: Ltc Samuel Hawes
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| Independent Continental units | - 1st and 3rd Continental Light Dragoons: Ltc William Washington
- Lee's Legion: Ltc Henry Lee
- 1st Continental Artillery Regiment: Cpt Anthony Singleton, Cpt Ebenezer Finley (2 batteries of 2 six-pounders)
- Delaware Company: Cpt Robert Kirkwood
- Wallace's Virginia Light Infantry Company: Cpt Andrew Wallace (k), Lt Reuben Long
- Huffman's Virginia Light Infantry Company (cooperated with Kirkwood's Company): Lt Philip Huffman (k)
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| North Carolina Militia | Hillsborough District Brigade
BG John Butler
| - Randolph County Regiment: Ltc James Dougan (7 companies)
- Chatham County Regiment: (2 companies)
- Wake County Regiment: (2 companies)
- Bladen County Regiment (detached from Wilmington District Brigade: Lt. Col. James Richardson (3 companies)
- Cumberland County Regiment (detached from Wilmington District Brigade (2 companies)
- Duplin County Regiment (detached from Wilmington District Brigade (1 company)
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| Salisbury District Brigade
BG Ambrose Ramsey
| - Surry County Rifles: Col Martin Armstrong (3 companies)
- Surry County Regiment: Col Joseph Williams (12 companies)
- Rowan County Regiment: Col Francis Locke Sr. (8 companies)
- Mecklenburg County Regiment Col Francis Locke Sr., Detachment (8 companies)
- Wilkes County Regiment: Ltc James Miller, Detachment (3 companies)
- Lincoln County Regiment: Maj John Carruth, Detachment (6 companies)
- Rutherford County Regiment: Ltc James Miller Detachment (2 companies)
- Burke County Regiment Detachment
- Washington County Regiment: Ltc Charles Robertson Detachment (3 companies)
- Anson County Regiment: Col Hicks and Col William Lofton (2 companies)
- Guilford County 1st Regiment: Col James Martin (13 companies) and 2nd Regiments: Col John Peasely (13 companies)
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| Halifax District Brigade
BG Thomas Eaton
| - Jones County Regiment (detached from New Bern District Brigade: (1 company)
- Nash County Regiment (detached from New Bern District Brigade): Lt Col William Linton (6 companies)
- Johnston County Regiment (detached from New Bern District): Col William Bryan (1 company)
- Hyde County Regiment (detached from Edenton county regiment)
- Camden County Regiment (detached from Edenton District Brigade): (1 company)
- Gates County Regiment (detached from Edenton District Brigade): (1 company)
- Martin County Regiment: Col Whitmell Hill (7 companies)
- Northampton County Regiment: Col Andrew Haynes (2 companies)
- Halifax County Regiment: Col Pinketham Eaton (8 companies)
- Edgecombe County Regiment: Ltc John Eaton (3 companies)
- Franklin County Regiment: Col Benjamin Williams (5 companies)
- Warren County Regiment: Col Herbert Haynes (6 companies)
- Botetourt County Riflemen: Col Charles Lynch (10 companies)
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| Other | - North Carolina cavalry: Cpt Charles-François Sevelinges, Marquis de Bretigney
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| Virginia Militia | First Virginia Brigade
BG Edward Stevens (w)
| - Militia regiment: Col Samuel McDowell
- Militia regiment: Col George Moffet
- Militia regiment: Col Nathaniel Cocke
- Militia regiment: Col Peter Perkins
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| Second Virginia Brigade
BG Robert Lawson
| - Militia regiment: Col Robert Munford
- Militia regiment: Col John Holcombe
- Militia regiment: Col Beverly Randolph
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| Rifle units | - Campbell’s Virginia Rifle Corps: Col William Campbell
- Lynch’s Virginia Rifle Corps: Col Charles Lynch
- Virginia Rifle Corps
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