The Biographical Dictionary of America/Adair, William P.

ADAIR, William P., assistant chief of the Cherokee nation, was born about 1828. At the time of the civil war General Albert Pike organized a band of Indians who, led by Adair, fought in the confederate army at the battle of Pea Ridge. After the war he was sent to Washington to represent his tribe, and died there Oct. 23, 1880.