Albert Pike's Biography(Books)(Photos)

Albert Pike, a lawyer, brigadier general in the Confederate
army, teacher, poet, newspaper editor, and author of

Oak Hill Cemetery (against his wishes—he had left
instructions for his body to be cremated). In 1944, his

Freemasonry texts, was born in Boston on December 29, 1809.
When he was four his family moved to Newburyport,

remains were moved to the House of the Temple, headquarters
of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite.

Massachusetts, where Pike spent his youth. He began Harvard
but the family had no means to support his education and

When the Mexican-American War started, Pike joined the

Pike became a teacher and then principal of the Newburyport
Academy. After teaching at the Academy and elsewhere, he

cavalry and was commissioned as a troop commander, serving
in the Battle of Buena Vista. He and his commander, John

took up with some seriousness his education with private
study.

Selden Roane, had several differences of opinion. This
situation led finally to a duel between Pike and Roane.

Very few outsiders know about the intimate plans of the

Although several shots were fired in the duel, nobody was
injured, and the two were persuaded by their seconds to

architects of the New World Order. One such architect was
Albert Pike, who in the 19th Century, established a

discontinue it.

framework for bringing about the One World Order. Based on a
vision revealed to him, Albert Pike wrote out a blueprint of

After the war, Pike returned to the practice of law, moving
to New Orleans for a time beginning in 1853. He wrote

events that would play themselves out in the 20th century,
with even more of these events yet to come. It is this

another book, Maxims of the Roman Law and some of the
Ancient French Law, as Expounded and Applied in Doctrine and

blueprint which we believe unseen leaders are following
today to engineer the planned Third and Final World War.

Jurisprudence. Although unpublished, this book increased his
reputation among his associates in law. He returned to

Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Ben and Sarah

Arkansas in 1857, gaining some amount of prominence in the
legal field and becoming an advocate of slavery, although

(Andrews) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and
Newburyport, Massachusetts. His colonial ancestors included

retaining his affiliation with the Whig party. When that
party dissolved, he became a member of the Know-Nothing

John Pike (1613-1688/1689), the founder of Woodbridge, New
Jersey. He attended school in Newburyport and Framingham

party. Before the Civil War he was firmly against secession,
but when the war started he nevertheless took the side of

until he was fifteen. In August 1825, he passed his entrance
exams and was accepted at Harvard University though, when

the Confederacy. At the Southern Commercial Convention of
1854, Pike said the South should remain in the Union and

the college requested payment of tuition fees for the first
two years, he chose not to attend. He began a program of

seek equality with the North, but if the South "were forced
into an inferior status, she would be better out of the

self-education, later becoming a schoolteacher in
Gloucester, North Bedford, Fairhaven and Newburyport.

Union than in it."

In 1831, Pike left Massachusetts to travel west, first

He also made several contacts among the Native American
tribes in the area, at one point negotiating an $800,000

stopping in St. Louis and later moving on to Independence,
Missouri. In Independence, he joined an expedition to Taos,

settlement between the Creeks and other tribes and the
federal government. This relationship was to influence the

New Mexico, hunting and trading. During the excursion his
horse broke and ran, forcing Pike to walk the remaining 500

course of his Civil War service. At the beginning of the
war, Pike was appointed as Confederate envoy to the Native

miles to Taos. After this he joined a trapping expedition to
the Llano Estacado in New Mexico and Texas. Trapping was

Americans. In this capacity he negotiated several treaties,
one of the most important being with Cherokee chief John

minimal and, after traveling about 1300 miles (650 on foot),
he finally arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Ross, which was concluded in 1861.

Settling in Arkansas in 1833, he taught school and wrote a

Pike was commissioned as a brigadier general on November 22,
1861, and given a command in the Indian Territory. With Gen.

series of articles for the Little Rock Arkansas Advocate
under the pen name of "Casca." The articles were popular

Ben McCulloch, Pike trained three Confederate regiments of
Indian cavalry, most of whom belonged to the "civilized

tribes", whose loyalty to the Confederacy was variable.
Although victorious at the Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn

Tavern) in March, Pike's unit was defeated later in a
counterattack, after falling into disarray. Also, as in the

Advocate promoted the viewpoint of the Whig party in a
politically volatile and divided Arkansas.

previous war, Pike came into conflict with his superior
officers, at one point drafting a letter to Jefferson Davis

He then began to study law and was admitted to the bar in

complaining about his direct superior.

1837, selling the Advocate the same year. He was the first
reporter for the Arkansas supreme court and also wrote a

After Pea Ridge, Pike was faced with charges that his troops
had scalped soldiers in the field. Maj. Gen. Thomas C.

book (published anonymously), titled The Arkansas Form Book,
which was a guidebook for lawyers. Additionally, Pike wrote

Hindman also charged Pike with mishandling of money and
material, ordering his arrest. Both these charges were later

on several legal subjects and continued producing poetry, a
hobby he had begun in his youth in Massachusetts. His poems

found to be considerably lacking in evidence; nevertheless
Pike, facing arrest, escaped into the hills of Arkansas,

were highly regarded in his day, but are now mostly
forgotten. Several volumes of his works were self-published

sending his resignation from the Confederate Army on July
12. He was at length arrested on November 3 under charges of

posthumously by his daughter. In 1859, he received an
honorary Ph.D. from Harvard, but declined it.

insubordination and treason, and held briefly in Warren,
Texas, but his resignation was accepted on November 11 and

Pike died in Washington, D.C., aged 81, and was buried at

he was allowed to return to Arkansas.