St. Louis Cemetery No. 2

This guide to St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 in New Orleans follows Dominique You, right-hand lieutenant to the Lafitte brothers, whose smuggling crews earned him a federal piracy indictment in 1814 and a case that looked headed for the gallows. It traces how the British invasion of 1815 and General Andrew Jackson's need for cannon crews changed his fortunes, and how a president's pardon rewrote his standing in the city. He spent his remaining years, by most accounts, as a respectable and well-liked citizen. Look for the small carved emblem marking his tomb here.