solid mahogany, finished in genuine gold and upholstered in silk damask. The house held mirrors, tables, large four-poster beds of rosewood with silken and satin canopies, and four tapestry curtains depicting the four palaces of Napoleon and Josephine: Versailles, Malmaison, Saint Cloud and Fontainebleau. Malmaison was one of the show places of Mississippi. It was a great tourist attraction and was visited annually by hundreds from all parts of the United States. Around it clung the memories of the transition of Mississippi from Indian territory to its present status. LeFlore descendants used the mansion until it was destroyed in a fire in 1942. Only a few pieces of crystal and silver, and some chairs were salvaged from the ruins of the mansion. The horse carriage used to transport LeFlore to visit Andrew Jackson and other Washington, D.C. officials had been saved and has been preserved. American Civil War and Death LeFlore was pro-Unionist and was against the idea of secession. He died a few months after the war ended. He was 65. LeFlore was buried wrapped in the American flag, on the estate. He left in addition to the mansion, an estate of 15,000 acres and 400 slaves. With emancipation, the slaves became freedmen, but many may have stayed on the plantation to work for his descendants. Carson describes LeFlore: He was first and foremost a man whose family had positioned him to draw together Choctaw and Anglo-American worlds. He owned slaves which became freedmen, read and wrote, and prayed at camp meetings, but he also presided over a political hierarchy of pipe lighters and captains, provided food, shelter, and educational opportunities for his followers, and promulgated his vision of the Choctaw future at the foot of the mound [Nanih Waiya] that had given his people life. See also Apuckshunubbee Mosholatubbee Pushmataha George W. Harkins Peter Pitchlynn Phillip Martin List of Choctaw Treaties Citations External links Greenwood LeFlore portrait and other images 1800 births 1865 deaths 19th-century American politicians Chiefs of the Choctaw Leaders ousted by a coup Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives Mississippi Whigs Mississippi state senators Native American leaders Native American slave owners Native American state legislators Native Americans in the American Civil War 19th-century Native Americans