1812 President Carol Jutte and Vice-President Pat Tucker at the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans in Southport, NC on January 8, 2024.
The newly refurbished marker is adorned with flowers that each attendee placed with the help of Kathy Miller.
Left upper back to front: Jaqueline La Mar, Caron Myers, Pat Gooding, Kathy Miller, Diane Price, Rebecca Chipman, Vice-President Pat Tucker, President Carol Jutte, Bettie Lettieri, Joan Hall, Linda Lashley, Cindy Sellers, Phyllis Wilson, Cheri Lambert, Waydell Bicking, and Carol Hart
Diane Price provided information about The Battle of New Orleans:
During the War of 1812, more than 5,000 Americans were imprisoned at Dartmoor Prison between 1813 and 1815. The majority were seamen and most were crews of privateers. On April 7, 1815, months after the war officially ended, an altercation between some of them who were outside the buildings and the guards, an alarm was sounded. Shots were fired and seven prisoners were fatally shot.
It was the end of July before all the prisoners returned to the United States. More than 200 Americans are known to be buried in the prison yard. Records list at least 14 privateer seamen from North Carolina died at that desolate prison in Devon England.
1812 member Bettie Lettieri announced her patriot as she handed Kathy Miller her flower to place on the marker in memory of her patriot. Below others did the same.
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