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Pike, Albert
Pike, Albert (1809–91) Confederate army officer. Pike left his native Massachusetts and headed for the southwest, where he held a variety of jobs and entered the law and politics, becoming famous and wealthy in the process. Personal problems led him to relocate to New Orleans in 1853. There, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he became commissioner of Indian affairs for the Confederacy and organized several Indian regiments to fight for the South. Mutilation of Union dead by Pike's Indian regiment and Pike's accusation of treason against the Confederacy for treaty violations brought him widespread opprobrium, and he fled as the Confederacy collapsed, living out the rest of his life in the wilds of the Ozarks amid widespread rumors of moral turpitude and becoming a leading Freemason.
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"Pike, Albert." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Pike, Albert." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-PikeAlbert.html "Pike, Albert." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-PikeAlbert.html |
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