Battery Four

The free men of color who held this stretch of line were sent out of New Orleans after the victory. Jackson praised the battalions publicly, but white residents feared that armed Black soldiers might destabilize slavery, and he ordered the troops away. Joseph Savary, the second major who led the 256 men mustered on December 19, 1814, first organized a victory parade so the city would see who had fought for it. Savary and many veterans then went to Spanish Texas and joined the rebels fighting for Mexican independence. He is recorded in New Orleans again in 1822.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — steps away
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.
• The Cabildo — 4.3 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 4.3 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 4.4 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• Louisiana Militia — steps away
• Mississippi Militia — steps away
• U.S. Navy — steps away
• Chalmette Monument — steps away