Pike was commissioned in the Confederate army as a brigadier general, but his wartime career lasted less than two years. His men were accused of scalping Union troops, and he was eventually forced to resign. He received a reprieve from President Andrew Johnson and moved to Washington, D.C., where he died in 1891.

The National Park Service will restore Confederate general Albert Pike’s statue in Washington, DC, five years after it was toppled during anti-racism protests. The move, citing Trump-era executive orders,

WASHINGTON (AP) — A statue of a Confederate general that was toppled by protesters in Washington in 2020 will be restored and replaced this fall, in line with President Donald Trump’s pushback on recent efforts to reframe America’s historical narrative.

Albert Pike was a Confederate general and diplomat who negotiated alliances with slave-owning Native American tribes during the Civil War.

Two Confederate monuments are returning to Washington. Why it matters: It's part of President Trump's push to reinstate names and symbols that were removed from public spaces after George Floyd's murder by police in 2020.

The administration has plans to 'restore Confederate names and symbols' discarded in the wake of George Floyd's 2020 murder

The statue of Confederate Albert Pike, toppled overnight by protesters outside of Judiciary Square one street over from D.C. Police Headquarters, on June 20, 2020, in Washington.