June 8, 1864
Word was received at Washington, Arkansas, that Captain Walter L. Pike, son of General Albert Pike, had been killed in Mississippi on April 17, 1864. He was the adjutant of Colonel H.E. Clark’s brigade and had been sent with a party of 16 men to purchase forage on Grand Prairie, where they encountered a Federal force of about 100 cavalry.
Note from ArkansasTies: I suspect the death of his son was one of the primary reasons he refused to take the “Oath” and was granted amnesty after the war.
