Mississippi Militia

The Mississippi Dragoons' commander had two more decades of public life ahead. Thomas Hinds, a militia major since 1813, became brigadier general of Mississippi's militia in late 1815 and major general after statehood, resigning in 1819. That year he lost the governor's race to George Poindexter, 38 percent to 62. In 1820 he went with Jackson as a federal agent to negotiate with the Choctaw, which produced the Treaty of Doak's Stand. He served in Congress from 1828 to 1831, and Mississippi's Hinds County, home of the state capital, carries his name.

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

• Kentucky Militia — steps away
• Chalmette Monument — steps away
• Louisiana Militia — steps away
• Choctaw Nation — steps away