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,

The Trump administration is planning to reinstall two Confederate monuments, following through on a push by President Donald Trump to restore statues that were removed in the wake of the George Floyd protests.

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

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.

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.