Career

During the Quasi-War with France, he commanded the marine detachment on the United States Ship Constitution, and led the daring attack to spike the cannon in the fort at Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo. Major Carmick served with distinction in the Mediterranean, and commanded the Marines in the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. When the war began, the United States. naval presence in New Orleans was perhaps stronger than at any point in the country, certainly as to "gunboats," the shallow-draft coastal and riverine craft.

Wounded December 28, 1814 by a Congreve rocket in one of the engagements which set the stage for the more famous Battle of New Orleans, Major Carmick died November 6, 1816.

He is buried in Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2 in New Orleans. In 1942, the destroyer United States Ship Carmick (Doctor of Divinity-493) was named in his honor.