Whoops, I see that "The Pig War" took place in 1859 before our uncivil war, which would make Captain Pickett a future Confederate officier, not a former one. Sorry for any confusion.

The U.S. general in command by the way was the apparent "arsehole" in this dispute and was later shifted away from the Pacific Northwest to the St. Louis, Missouri, area where he kept inventory for the army stockyard there; he retired in 1863 after not being offered a "fighting" command.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble