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Brown’s "A Life of Albert Pike"
In Response To: Ken ()

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Elmer,
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re: Chapter 31 of Walter Lee Brown’s A LIFE OF ALBERT PIKE, Fayetteville AR, Univ of Arkansas Press, 610pp
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The pages 401-402 of W. L. Brown’s A LIFE OF ALBERT PIKE that you referenced are in Chapter 31. ..It should be pointed out that in that chapter, Brown skipped parts of Albert Pike’s life that are important in the history of now Caddo County OK; Warren, Fannin County TX; and now Grady County OK. ..Below are several excerpts from my 1,046-page book.
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1862 Fannin Co TX, Warren Jail, Nov 19......SIR [President Jefferson Davis, Richmond, Virginia]:
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“I am here a prisoner, in the custody of a captain and 48 men of [CSA Gen J.O.] Shelby's brigade of Missouri troops, on my way to Little Rock, by virtue of the order from Gen. J.S. Roane.
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... I was seized near Tishomingo, in the Chickasaw country, on the 14th instant [October], when returning to Fort Washita from Fort Arbuckle, where I had gone expecting to march to the Wichita Agency to repel an invasion of hostile Indians.”
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Albert Pike, Brig-Gen. P.A.C.S. ..(letter from the Warren jail). ..per ORsIv13[S#19]p922.
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Editor’s note:
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Pike was not court martialed but demoted to a civilian officer until May 1865 when he was asked to recruit Comanches and go to Camp Napoleon (Chickasaw Nation, I.T., now Grady Co OK) since the Indians trusted him.
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On November 14, 1862, Pike was on his way to the Wichita Agency (Leased Lands, I.T., now Anadarko, Caddo Co OK) to accsess the damage caused by the October 23, 1862 raid on the Wichita Agency and Tonkawa Massacre by Shawnee, Wichita, and Delaware Indians, all of whom came from Kansas armed with new Union rifles.
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Hdqts. Trans-Mississippi Dept.
Shreveport, Caddo Parish
Louisiana, April 8, 1865
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Hon. Albert Pike
SIR:
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Having full faith in your integrity and patriotism, you are hereby appointed, under authority vested in me by the President of the Confederate States, a commissioner on the part of said States to treat, alone or in conjunction with other commissioners, with the Comanches of the prairie, and to form alliance with them in accordance with the power with which you are invested.
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I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant,
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E. Kirby Smith, General
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per ORsIv48/3[S#102]p1266.
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Hdqts. Trans-Mississippi Dept.
Shreveport, Caddo Parish
Louisiana, April 15, 1865
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CSA Col. W.D. Reagan
COLONEL:
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The commanding general [E.K. Smith] instructs me to inform you that by authority vested in him by the War Department, under the direction of the President [J. Davis], he appointed Brig-Gen. J.W. Throckmorton, of the State of Texas, and Hon. Albert Pike, of the State of Arkansas, Indian commissioners on the part of the Confederate States to meet in council with the tribes in alliance with them, and the Comanches and other wild tribes of the prairie, for the purpose, if practicable, of concluding a treaty of peace with the latter, as also an alliance offensive against the North [Union].
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... On account of reasons springing from family affairs, the Hon. Albert Pike has declined to accept the appointment or to act as such commissioner. ..The commanding general, E.K. Smith, who made this selection of Mr. Pike has advised of your capacity and acquaintance with many of the Indian tribes and hereby appoint you [W.D. Reagan] the Indian commissioner on the part of the Confederate States, in the place of the Hon. Albert Pike for the duty above mentioned.
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I remain, colonel, with great respect, Your obedient servant,
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C.S. West
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CSA Major & A. Adjt-Gen.
per ORsIv48/3[S#102]p1280.
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News of the surrender of E. Kirby Smith’s army must have stunned the Indian leaders. ..“Hadn’t Gen. Kirby Smith felt so confident that he could hold out that he issued a commission to Albert Pike — then W.D. Reagan — so he could help in organizing the new Confederate allies, the Plains Indians?
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Also hadn’t General J.B. Magruder declared in Houston: ‘I’d rather be a Comanche Indian than bow to the Yankees!’ ..One by one the Indian Rebels surrendered their forces, while Cherokee Confederate General Stand Watie continued flying the ‘Secesh’ [secessionist] flag while his subordinate commanders in Indian Territory had given up with dignity and pride.
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per "Cherokee Nation Papers", Microfilm 42, Doc. 5178 (Brig-Gen. James C. Veatch (Union) to W.P. Adair and James M. Bell, "Delegates from the Cherokee Nation," July 19, 1865).
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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