Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

[Historyman 14]

(Idea @Joshua Ben Ari gave me.)

Southern Missionary group in Palestine, 1920. Following the rise of Jake Featherston and the Freedom Party, several oversea churches underwent an break with the Homeland, leaving them in short, without an nation. Following the fall of the CSA in 1944, these churches acted as intermediaries and took on roles to help smooth the transition from independence to United States control.

 

[Allochronian]

I love this! These are probably your most detailed maps so far! Good detail here and I especially love the ethnic demographics map here as well. Very helpful!

Thank you, but I must clarify something: I didn't make the Austria-Hungary maps. They were already made in the Wikipedia articles. Whoever did them surely knows his/her stuff.

That being said, I do have a few things that I've been making from a pre-existing template and adding my own changes. Expect them soon!

 

[Allochronian]

Anagallis Arvensis: The Irishman who saved 6,500 Black Confederates

Born in Ireland during the last few years of the 19th Century, Hugh O'Flaherty was an Irish Catholic priest and senior figure in the Roman Curia.

After ordination, he was later sent to Rome during the 1920's where he was assigned to be a diplomat in Egypt, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Austria-Hungary. After becoming a monsignor in the 1930's, he was sent to the Confederacy under a special mission from the Pope. Despite a small of number of Catholics in the CSA, Msgr. O'Flaherty administered to the spiritual needs of his flock and was viewed as an ordinary priest from Rome. In secret, he developed underground connections with the U.S. government and like-minded individuals who risked their lives to safely transport as much Black Confederates to the United States as he could from Featherston's forces. For those that couldn't be transported, they were hidden in homes. One notable group of "housekeepers" were rabbis living the CSA who were able smuggle a significant number of Black Confederates just before the US-CS border was shut down, although a few did try to continue, despite the great danger of getting caught.

During the Second Great War, O'Flaherty used an alias, Anagallis Arvensis*, to avoid detection from Featherston's Confederacy. There were numerous attempts to entrap O'Flaherty but he always averted them. After the end of the war, his deeds and his identity was revealed and became a famous figure in the United States, for both Black and White alike. Current evidence has shown that O'Flaherty was directly responsible for saving at least 6,500 Black Confederates from the Population Reduction, although some scholars say that the actual number could be much higher. Decades after his death in the 1960's, a movie was made about his life named The Scarlet and the Indigo.

*Anagallis Arvensis is the scientific name for... scarlet pimpernel.

Inspiration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_O'Flaherty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagallis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_and_the_Black

 

[Allochronian]

Maps of Europe Before and After the First Great War

Europe, 1914

Europe, after 1917

Source and Inspiration:

 

[Alterwright]

Maps of Europe Before and After the First Great War

Europe, after 1917

Yeah! I like these maps too. What do the light gray countries mean? Germany's puppet states?

 

[Historyman 14]

Anagallis arvensis: The Irishman who saved 6,500 Black Confederates

Inspiration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_O'Flaherty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagallis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_and_the_Black

This really reminds me of the Righteous Among the Nations I learn about in Israel. I love this post and everything about it. Also reminds me of Japan and Chiune Sugihara who also saved many Jews in OTL.

 

[Alterwright]

Confederate Freedom Party Guardsmen Uniforms #2:

Credit for art by --- >>> Maridjan Kirisame on DeviantArt --- https://www.deviantart.com/maridjan-kirisame

Credit for submachine-gun by --- >>> @cortz#9

^^^ --- Second of Freedom Party Guardsmen by the same artist that did the first. Mid to Late-War, variations in headwear ranging from camouflaged army issued hats to civilian wide-brimmed hats (some would remark that it reminded them of hats from the War of Secession) with Confederate Freedom Party badges pinned on them. Variations in weaponry include submachine-guns and the occasional bolt action rifle for snipers or designated marksmen.

 

[Historyman 14]

Picture an T:-191 version of this.

From 1904. Just replace France with Germany and your golden. Or vice versa replace America with Confederacy.

 

[Allochronian]

Map of East Asia during the First Great War in TL-191

Note: It was actually a bit difficult to find a decent map of Asia during WWI. Luckily, I did find a good map on OmniAtlas and I edited the map. You can compare it to the real-life one, if anyone wants to. I also made some plausible changes. As an effect of a Japanese victory during the Hispano-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War never happened in TL-191 and both nations, Russia and Japan were able to negotiate which territory was theirs. Manchuria was accepted by the Japanese as Russian-controlled, in exchange for Japanese control of Korea. South Sakhalin would still belong to Russia, unlike in OTL. Port Arthur would still belong to Japan in both TL-191 and OTL.

One more thing: I think I discovered a semi-major error that Turtledove made when he decided to keep the name "Sandwich Islands" for Hawaii. Apparently, the name was changed in 1840 to the "Hawaiian Islands" by the British. This was twenty-two years before the Point of Divergence in 1862! All of this means that even in TL-191, the Sandwich Islands would still be known by its OTL name.

Sources:
https://omniatlas.com/maps/asia-pacific/19141010/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_and_Pacific_theatre_of_World_War_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_New_Guinea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-Wilhelmsland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War
http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10524/495/JL14054.pdf?sequence=2
https://www.nationsonline.org/maps/Asia-Map-1914-3000px.jpg
http://wwnorton.com/NRL/english/nawol/Maps.htm

 

[TheNixonator]

Two Mormon Rebels
Joseph Feldsted (left)
Jerome Rigby (right)

The white on their armbands represented their holiness
whilst the red represented the blood they would spill to protect their religion

The picture was found on a dead Utah civilian
the two names listed were found on the back

 

[Alterwright]

Picture an T:-191 version of this.

From 1904. Just replace France with Germany and your golden. Or vice versa replace America with Confederacy.

What is this? Some kind of propaganda poster?

 

[Alterwright]

(Idea @Joshua Ben Ari gave me.)
Southern Missionary group in Palestine, 1920. Following the rise of Jake Featherston and the Freedom Party, several oversea churches underwent an break with the Homeland, leaving them in short, without an nation. Following the fall of the CSA in 1944, these churches acted as intermediaries and took on roles to help smooth the transition from independence to United States control.

Interesting! So, like little enclaves of Confederates citizens then in foreign lands?

 

[Historyman 14]

What is this? Some kind of propaganda poster?

Art Nouveau by Alphonse Mucha. He did a lot of famous works of that style during the era as well as the Slavic Epic. (Which interesting enough, he didn't think much of Art Nouveau even when he was one of its big names.)

Interesting! So, like little enclaves of Confederates citizens then in foreign lands?

In short, yes. The idea is taken from the fate of a lot of Russian churches after the Revolution and Civil War. Some came under Communists while others told Moscow 'shove it' and did their own thing. ( See the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.)

 

[TheNixonator]

picture of Booth sometime in the 1860s

John Wilkes Booth was a famous actor between 1859 - 1915
he had been killed by Mormon terrorists at the remembrance parade in 1915
his name can be found on the memorial to the civilians who had been killed on that fateful day

 

[Allochronian]

Cardinal Pacelli's visit to the United States and Confederate States, 1936

Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, made a visit to both the USA and CSA between October and November of 1936. During his trip he visited New York City, Washington, D.C., Boston, Saint Paul, MN, Chicago, and Richmond. Pacelli would congratulate Al Smith on his victory in the presidential election, although he would mention that it was unfortunate that Smith chose the Socialist Party. After silencing Fr. Coughlin for his controversial support of Fascism, among other things, Pacelli visited the Confederate capital of Richmond and had plans to visit other Confederate cities but was cut short after his meeting with Featherston. Newspapers in both nations noticed how unusual it was for the trip to be over so soon since the cardinal only visited one Confederate city and did not even visit areas of the Confederacy that had a historic minority of Catholics. Pacelli would later remark that the trip compelled him to prepare the Church for another global war. He would be proven right when the Second Great War began in 1941.

Cardinal Pacelli in Philadelphia near the Liberty Bell

Cardinal Pacelli at Hyde Park, New York

Photograph of Cardinal Pacelli after his visit from President Jacob Featherston in Richmond, CSA

A little girl approaches Cardinal Pacelli, kneels down and kisses his ecclesiastical ring in reverence during his time in New York.*


*This photo would be used by the Confederate government under Featherston to attack Cardinal Pacelli when he became pope in 1939. Featherston encouraged Saul Goldman , the Director of Communications in the Confederacy, to portray the cardinal in an unflattering view by attacking him for being "worshipped as a god" or by using salacious innuendo. During the meeting between Al Smith and Jacob Featherston, Smith would remark that he found Featherston's government attacks against the pope to be offensive and untrue. However, Featherston would refuse to back down from his propagandist hit pieces against those he perceived to be against him.

 

[akoslows]

After silencing Fr. Coughlin for his controversial support of Fascism

1. I don’t think Coughlin existed in Timeline-191, as his page on the Turtledove Wiki only mentions him making an appearance in Joe Steele.
2. Since Benito Mussolini never came into power in Southern Victory, fascism never became a major ideology in Europe like IOTL.

Just two things I felt needed to be pointed out.

 

[Allochronian]

1. I don’t think Coughlin existed in Timeline-191, as his page on the Turtledove Wiki only mentions him making an appearance in Joe Steele.
2. Since Benito Mussolini never came into power in Southern Victory, fascism never became a major ideology in Europe like IOTL.

Just two things I felt needed to be pointed out.

Coughlin would still be born in Ontario in 1891. By the time the First Great War ends, he would be a former Canadian living as an American national.

Britain and France had Fascist policies/tendencies in TL-191. In OTL, Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists was a real thing.

Assuming that he still admires Fascism, Coughlin would be rooting for both nations.

Italy is irrelevant in TL-191.

 

[akoslows]

Coughlin would still be born in Ontario in 1891. By the time the First Great War ends, he would be a former Canadian living as an American national.

Britain and France had Fascist policies/tendencies in TL-191. In OTL, Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists was a real thing.

Assuming that he still admires Fascism, Coughlin would be rooting for both nations.

Italy is irrelevant in TL-191.

I’m aware of how fascistic Britain and France became by the later stages of the series, but in the context of TL-191, how would it make sense for Coughlin to be an admirer of fascism when, according to the Turtledove Wiki, it never became a formalized ideology in that series.

Also, if he became an American nationalist like OTL, wouldn’t that mean he’d be completely opposed to anything and everything that was related to the Confederacy(i.e. France and Britain due to their alliance with the Confederacy)? Considering how the Remembrance ideology dominated US culture after the Second Mexican War up until the end of The Great War, he would be raised in an environment that despised everything the Confederacy was and stood for, along with anything that was related to it. Since Britain and France were allies of the Confederates during this time, wouldn’t they fall into that category?

 

[Alterwright]

I’m aware of how fascistic Britain and France became by the later stages of the series, but in the context of TL-191, how would it make sense for Coughlin to be an admirer of fascism when, according to the Turtledove Wiki, it never became a formalized ideology in that series.

Whoa, whoa, wait. Fascism in TL-191 isn't formalized? I thought it was, what with Britain, France, and the Confederacy all having (or at least heavily supporting) fascist like leaders or ideologies. Can you clarify a bit?

 

[akoslows]

Whoa, whoa, wait. Fascism in TL-191 isn't formalized? I thought it was, what with Britain, France, and the Confederacy all having (or at least heavily supporting) fascist like leaders or ideologies. Can you clarify a bit?

I’m basing this on information I received from the Turtledove Wiki. According to that Wiki:

While several entities appear in the Southern Victory series that are fascistic in nature (including the Freedom Party, the Silver Shirts, and Action Francaise), fascism was not a formalized ideology in that series. Indeed, the word fascism does not appear to have entered into the vernacular.