Louisiana Militia

One unit on the line was a battalion of free men of color, drawn largely from Saint-Domingue refugees. Joseph Savary, a former officer in the French revolutionary army there, recruited about 256 men; Major Louis D'Aquin, a white Creole, was nominal commander. Mustered December 19, 1814, the battalion joined the night attack of December 23 and held the American right on January 8. Jackson had offered free men of color 160 acres. He ordered it paid, but the federal government refused, and the men were put on fatigue duty and disbanded. Savary and many others went to Texas.

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

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