David Bannister Morgan
On the eight day of January, 1815
David Bannister Morgan
Brigadier General V.S.A.
with 400 militia, held his position, called in the British official reports, “the flanking battery,” and from which, to employ Gen. Jackson’s own words “Jackson could have been shelled out in ten minutes.” against 1600 veterans of the Peninsula under Col. W.M. Thornton H.B.M.A., until Gen. Jackson had immortally won the Battle of New Orleans.
This tablet is placed here by the General Society of the War of 1812 in the United States.
Marker is on Saint Peter Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
