Mention too of “Albert Pike and his cannibals.” Pike, another Boston Confederate, is a very controversial figure. Mason, Know Nothing, poet, Klansman, and some say satanist. His Indian troops were said to have taken scalps, but “cannibals” was probably an exaggeration.
It took me a while to find it. (I finally had to do a search at the NY Times site). "West of the Mississippi," page 9.