| Summary: | (No photograph in uniform is known to exist.) Mexican War veteran. Appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs by the Confederate government at the outbreak of war. Commissioned as a brigadier general in August 1861. Responsible for the Department of the Indian Territory, where he recruited Native Americans to fight for the Confederacy. Major campaigns and battles include Pea Ridge. Because of questions regarding Indian conduct at Pea Ridge, Pike resigned his Confederate commission. After the war, he resumed his writing career and became a well known poet and author. He died in Washington, D.C., in April 1891 and is buried there. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 5. National Historical Society, 1991.
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