U.S. Marines

Major Daniel Carmick led the Marines. Born in Philadelphia in 1773, he was sent to newly acquired Louisiana in January 1804. On December 23, 1814, he took temporary command of a Louisiana battalion in Jackson's night attack. Five days later a Congreve rocket struck him during an artillery duel, seriously wounding his arm and head, and he spent the rest of the battle in hospital. He married Margaret O'Brien Cowperthwait on March 4, 1815, while still recovering, and died in New Orleans on November 6, 1816, aged 43. He lies in St. Louis Cemetery No. 2.

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