Here is a different duck. He was born in Boston in 1809 and died in Washington, D.D. in 1891. Albert Pike is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with a statue in Washington D.C. The statue sits in Judiciary Square. He probably is most remembered for his Freemason writings and wrote a large book on Southern Freemasonry, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. He was given a commission as a Confederate General and was charged to raise a force in the Indian Territory. He raised some units and participated in the Battle of Pea Ridge in March of 1862. After the crushing of the Confederate forces at that battle, Pike was accused of allowing his Indian troops to scalp enemy soldiers. He was also charged with theft and mishandling government property. He escaped into the hills of Arkansas and later Texas. He was finally arrested on serious charges but allowed to go home to Arkansas. AFter the war, eventually he was pardoned. He engaged in the practice of law and eventually settled in Washington, D. C. where he spent the rest of his life. His masonic ties have lead to conspiracy theories with Pike involved. Pike was also accused of being a high ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan, but that has not been proved. He was a very interesting and colorful person, but not much of a military man.