"MAW Mexican line infantry question 1846-1848" Topic

So I'm painting some Eureka 18mm Mexican infantry and learning about the uniforms. At this point, I have two unanswered questions that I'm hoping folks here can help me with.

1. The cazadore company in the line regiments had what distinguishing color? I've found green pompom and yellow color. Is this right? I presume the facing colors all remain the same.

2, The 3rd line for instance has center companies with red pompoms. What do the grenadiers have that's any different? There must be something significant to identify them over center company personnel.

Thanks for any assistance.

My understanding is that the 1840 uniform regulation states that all companies(line, light and grenadier) of a line regiment had red pompoms, while the light regiments had green pompoms.

Grenadiers had red pompoms with yellow vertical lace on their cuffs that extended onto their sleeve.

Patrick Wilson or some other walking encyclopedia on the subject may come around and correct me, but I have posted my understanding of the subject.

79th PA!

You are most kind to mention my name, but I'm less a "walking encyclopedia" these days than a "lumbering sieve" leaking information from a fossilizing brain!

However, I can reference my own copy of Hefter's definitive work, "The Mexican Soldier" as easily as the next fellow, and you are, of course, correct in your reply to the original question.

To ThePeninsularWarin15mm, at the definite risk of sounding self-serving, may I mention that anyone interested in the MAW cannot do without his own copy of Joseph Hefter's most famous work? You can read about it and even order from here: link

TVAG

Thanks for the responses. I guess that answers those questions, just I don't know why the elite companies are so much like the center companies. Just seemed to be (being a Napoleonic enthusiast) that it would be more complicated.

Part of the answer to your surprise is that the MAW was NOT a "Napoleonic" type war, despite a strangely wide assumption that it was.

Perhaps seeing (and enjoying as I do) the "Wayne-amo" film has influenced a great many folk into thinking so, but it was not true for the Mexican Army (as backward as it was), and absolutely nothing like it for the US Army.

It was a transitional period, not just "more of same" from almost 40 years before.

TVAG