Jordan B. Noble

The drummer boy of Chalmette was enslaved. Jordan Noble was born in Augusta, Georgia, in October 1800. In 1812 he became drummer of the 7th U.S. Army Regiment. At fourteen he kept time through the night fighting of December 23, 1814, and his drum was heard again in the main British attack on January 8. He gained his freedom in the 1830s. In April 1861 he and about 1,500 free men of color offered to serve the Confederacy; after the Union took the city in 1862 he raised a company for the other side.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.3 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• Congo Square — 0.5 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.6 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.
• The Cabildo — 0.7 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.

More markers nearby

• Oscar James Dunn — steps away
• Bernard de Marigny — 0.2 mi
• Homer Adolph Plessy — 0.2 mi
• Déterrer Storyville — 0.3 mi