Kentucky Militia

Not every Kentuckian stood behind the main line. About 200 under Colonel Davis went to the west bank and reached the field at 4 a.m. on January 8, 1815, after a five-mile march through mud and with nothing to eat since noon the day before. Jackson reported that only a third were armed. When Thornton's British landed late with about 560 men, some 700 militiamen on that bank were routed, at a cost of 2 Americans dead, 11 wounded and 19 missing. A court of inquiry cleared Davis and found no fault with the militia's conduct.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 0.2 mi
  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

• Choctaw Nation — steps away
• Louisiana Militia — steps away
• U.S. Navy — steps away
• U.S. Marines — steps away