Colonel Walter Scott’s Regiment of Horse

Later Sir Walter Scott of Whitestede's Regiment of Horse

Covenanter horse of the Third Civil War fighting at Dunbar and Inverkeithing

• Raised in Roxburgh and Selkirk

• 3rd September: Battle of Dunbar - 5 troops
• September: Regiment taken over by Sir Walter Scott of Whitslaid who is commissioned to raise horse in Teviotdale, Selkirk and Peebles
• October: Join the Western Association army
• November: Quartered in Fife
• November: Ordered to Stirling

• April: Quartered in Dunfermline
• May: Assigned to Browne's 3rd Cavalry Brigade
• June: Ordered from Fife to join the army at Stirling
• July: Sent with Brown and Holborn to Inverkeithing
• July: Battle of Inverkeithing left wing

A history of the unit is shown in Edward M. Furgol’s A Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies 1639-1651 Edinburgh, 1990. ISBN 0 85976 194 0

A cornet said to have been from the regiment is preserved at the National Museum of Scotland. It is larger than a usual cornet and is blue with a white saltire.¹⁾

A list of the regiment's officers is shown in Stuart Reid's Scots Armies of the 17th Century 2: Scots Colours Partizan Press 1988 ISBN 094652550 1