Gen. Albert Pike

Albert Pike was born in Boston on December 29, 1809, settled in Arkansas in 1833 and fought at Buena Vista in the Mexican War. The Confederacy, built to protect slavery, commissioned him a brigadier general on November 22, 1861, to command in Indian Territory, where he made a treaty with Cherokee chief John Ross. After Pea Ridge in March 1862, his Native troops were accused of scalping soldiers. He was arrested that November and resigned. He led the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 until he died in 1891, and historians dispute whether he joined the Ku Klux Klan.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 1.7 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• Congo Square — 1.8 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 2.0 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 2.1 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.

More markers nearby

• Charles Didier Dreux — 0.5 mi
• Heinemann Park/Pelican Stadium — 0.5 mi
• Central Congregational Church — 0.9 mi
• The Old Portage — 1.1 mi