About
Officer of the Confederate Army who was also an attorney, a poet, and a Freemason.
Before Fame
He passed the Harvard entrance examination but could not afford the university's tuition and became a schoolteacher instead.
Trivia
He was involved in the Ku Klux Klan during the hateful organization's early years.
Family Life
He was the son of Sarah and Ben Pike.
Associated With
He clashed with his superiors during the Civil War and wrote to Jefferson Davis to complain about several of them.
