“Mad” Anthony Wayne raised the 4th Pennsylvania battalion in 1775 from the local men of Chester and Bucks county. In 1777 the nucleus of these men were reorganized by Colonel Franics Johnston into the 5th regiment. Together with the 4th,8th and 11th regiment they formed the 2nd Pennsylvanian brigade commanded by Colonel Richard Humpton at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown.

Uniform plates

Even with my limited research skills I still managed to turn up four different uniform variations for this regiment. Example “A” is similar to that depicted in the free PDF available on the Baccus  website. Although, the Baccus illustration does show buff or buckskin pants opposed to the white linen ones I have pictured here. The next two examples are based on information and diagrams contained within Uniforms of the American war of independence. A mix of these two examples is how I ended up painting my version of this regiment.

However, there is a couple of noteworthy points that concern plates “B & C”. Firstly, my renditions depict two cross belts (matching my miniatures) while the book maintains these soldiers only used a single belt to support their cartridge box. Bayonets were carried in the older manner on a waist belt instead of a second cross belt. More importantly, according to some forums the aforementioned book contains many errors and is therefore not considered overly reliable source material by some. Example D is from Mollo and McGregor’s Uniforms of the American revolution. The red flannel leggings pictured here are also mentioned in a description on Wikipedia and in some cases whole Pennsylvanian regiments reportedly wore light infantry caps.