Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

[Tiro]

Here's a question that only struck me a day or two ago - what would a Confederate States passport look like?

Logically it would probably use the Great Seal of the Confederacy on the cover (that equestrian depiction of George Washington), but this begs two questions:-

-: How would the design of that Seal have evolved between 1861 and 1944? (I know that the Great Seal of the USA went through several iterations after the Civil War).

-: What colour should the cover of that passport be? (Red would be a possibility ... prior to 1GW ... but it seems likely that new colour would be called for afterwards; My guess is that the front-runners would be grey or green, although the former seems a little on-the-nose).

 

[Allochronian]

Here's a question that only struck me a day or two ago - what would a Confederate States passport look like?

Logically it would probably use the Great Seal of the Confederacy on the cover (that equestrian depiction of George Washington), but this begs two questions:-

-: How would the design of that Seal have evolved between 1861 and 1944? (I know that the Great Seal of the USA went through several iterations after the Civil War).

-: What colour should the cover of that passport be? (Red would be a possibility ... prior to 1GW ... but it seems likely that new colour would be called for afterwards; My guess is that the front-runners would be grey or green, although the former seems a little on-the-nose).

The Confederate Seal would probably be something like this during Featherston's Confederacy:

(It is from The Victorious Opposition cover, Hardback edition, Del Rey)

Color of the passport would be either grey or "butternut", unless they're fine with using "Yankee blue".

 

[Allochronian]

Confederate propaganda poster made sometime during or after the Battle of Pittsburgh

 

[Marklin]

A Confederate Artillery regiment in Virginia in the early days of the First Great War. This picture would become far more notable later on, as to the far right is a young Jake Featherston.

 

[Allochronian]

Photographs of George Custer and Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia

These rare photos were taken during a buffalo hunt that the Grand Duke took alongside Custer in 1872. It remained one of the last historical events in which the USA and Russia continued to have good diplomatic relations until the First Great War.


Sources:
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Alexei_Alexandrovich_of_Russia#The_buffalo_hunt
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer#American_Indian_Wars

 

[Marklin]

Is Featherston the soldier standing upright?

Yep

 

[m0585]

U.S. Soldiers taken prisoner in Ohio during Operation Blackbeard are shipped across the Ohio River to POW Camps further south; circa Fall, 1941.

 

[Historyman 14]

Photographs of George Custer and Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia

These rare photos were taken during a buffalo hunt that the Grand Duke took alongside Custer in 1872. It remained one of the last historical events in which the USA and Russia continued to have good diplomatic relations until the First Great War.


Sources:
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Alexei_Alexandrovich_of_Russia#The_buffalo_hunt
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer#American_Indian_Wars

I love the TTL story behind this, and it would be a great TL-191 historical tidbit and the fact the US and Russian Empire had good ties until the First Great War.

 

[S. Marlowski]

TCG Yavuz (formerly SMS Goeben, which was purchased from Germany at the end of the 1st Great War and modernized in the late 1930s) in Istanbul, circa 1942.

Admiral Nakhimov underway in the Black Sea, circa 1939.

Imperial Russian Marines aboard the light cruiser Svetlana in the Black Sea, circa 1943.

 

[Marklin]

Daniel Macarthur as portrayed by actor Douglas Randall in the film "Homeland"

 

[Tiro]

To all my fellow fans and other readers - A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS to all who celebrate it and Season's Greetings to all those who merely endure our enthusiasm for the Feast of the Nativity! (Just hang on in there, only another couple of days to go!).

 

[S. Marlowski]

Kind of late here

Union soldiers celebrating Christmas inside of a barracks at Fort McCoy, circa 1942.

Confederate Soldiers around a Christmas Tree, circa 1941.

 

[A Piece of History]

After seeing the success of the Silvershirts in the United Kingdom, Australian WWI veteran Eric Campbell formed his own political party called the Centre Party and with it, a armed wing called The Guard. Unlike his inspirations in Europe and the Confederate States, Campbell was dreadfully unpopular, using talking points taken right from the Silvershirts and in some extreme cases, the Freedom Party, threatening to hang Australian Prime Minister William Hughes and members of his government. His failure was also a result of Australia not being sufficiently impacted by the war for populism (Is there another word for TL-191 fascism?) to take root in the country. He was able to gain some popularity with his xenophobic rhetoric towards Asians, highlighting the proximity of the Japanese Empire to Australia, but this wasn't enough for him to win power. The Centre Party was later dissolved in disgrace and Campbell would survive a bout of cancer to rejoin the Australian Defence Force, only to die in the Second Great War in New Guinea.

However, there is some debate in Australian historical circles as to whether the Prime Minister of Australia during the Second Great War, John Curtin, was either a member of the Centre Party or even an associate of Campbell's.

The Centre Party's logo.

Eric Campbell

The equally intimidating and ridiculous uniform of 'The Guard'.

John Curtin: Centre Party member?

​

 

[Pangur]

After seeing the success of the Silvershirts in the United Kingdom, Australian WWI veteran Eric Campbell formed his own political party called the Centre Party and with it, a armed wing called The Guard. Unlike his inspirations in Europe and the Confederate States, Campbell was dreadfully unpopular, using talking points taken right from the Silvershirts and in some extreme cases, the Freedom Party, threatening to hang Australian Prime Minister William Hughes and members of his government. His failure was also a result of Australia not being sufficiently impacted by the war for populism (Is there another word for TL-191 fascism?) to take root in the country. He was able to gain some popularity with his xenophobic rhetoric towards Asians, highlighting the proximity of the Japanese Empire to Australia, but this wasn't enough for him to win power. The Centre Party was later dissolved in disgrace and Campbell would survive a bout of cancer to rejoin the Australian Defence Force, only to die in the Second Great War in New Guinea.

However, there is some debate in Australian historical circles as to whether the Prime Minister of Australia during the Second Great War, John Curtin, was either a member of the Centre Party or even an associate of Campbell's.

The Centre Party's logo.

Eric Campbell

The equally intimidating and ridiculous uniform of 'The Guard'.

John Curtin: Centre Party member?

​

No way Cutrin would have a bar of these guys

 

[Historyman 14]

Confederate Army Machine Gun post inside a barn, near Manassas, 1917.

A Confederate Private brushes snow from a 30-caliber machine gun mounted on his jeep, Dec 1943.

 

[S. Marlowski]

A cell of Freedom Party Guardsmen in the Everglades of Florida, circa May of 1945. At the time of the Defeat of the Confederacy, about 85% of Florida was still in Confederate Hands, as a result, small cells of die hard Freedomites would retreat into the Swamps of Florida and from there, would continue their fight against the occupying Union Army despite orders from the Confederate High Command to lay down their arms. The largest of these cells had about 38 men and was situated in the Ocala Swamps, which was north of Orlando, Florida, which housed the headquarters of the Union Army's 28th Infantry Division until 1947. Though in the weeks following the End of the Second Great War, many of these cells would either be wiped out or would surrender, but some would persist for months and even years after the Confederacy's Defeat with the last being eliminated by the US Army in July of 1952 in the Everglades. This conflict between these Fanatical Freedomites and the Union Army would be known as the Swamp Wars and was the subject of the 2002 film Swamp Soldiers, which focused around one of these fanatical cells in the Everglades.

 

[Spencer Pease]

A cell of Freedom Party Guardsmen in the Everglades of Florida, circa May of 1945. At the time of the Defeat of the Confederacy, about 85% of Florida was still in Confederate Hands, as a result, small cells of die hard Freedomites would retreat into the Swamps of Florida and from there, would continue their fight against the occupying Union Army despite orders from the Confederate High Command to lay down their arms. The largest of these cells had about 38 men and was situated in the Ocala Swamps, which was north of Orlando, Florida, which housed the headquarters of the Union Army's 28th Infantry Division until 1947. Though in the weeks following the End of the Second Great War, many of these cells would either be wiped out or would surrender, but some would persist for months and even years after the Confederacy's Defeat with the last being eliminated by the US Army in July of 1952 in the Everglades. This conflict between these Fanatical Freedomites and the Union Army would be known as the Swamp Wars and was the subject of the 2002 film Swamp Soldiers, which focused around one of these fanatical cells in the Everglades.

This reminds me of the Baltic partisans, especially the Lithuanian Forest Brothers, who fought against the Soviets from World War II to the mid-1950s.

 

[S. Marlowski]

Soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army in India chanting Banzai upon the news of the War ending and their nation being victorious, circa 1944.

 

[Allochronian]

Flags from the London-Paris-Petrograd-Richmond Radius

"There is no doubt that in this moment, History passes through the radius of London, Paris, Petrograd, and Richmond."
-Attributed to Sir Oswald Mosley, ca. 1936

Ultranationalist Britain

Actionist France

Tsarist Russia

Featherston’s Confederacy

Inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers#Origins_and_creation

 

[Allochronian]

President Jacob Featherston in military uniform next to his personal secretary, Lulu Mattox. (Colorized)

It is unknown why Ms. Mattox was wearing a military overcoat, but most historians think that this photograph was taken as a joke.

Anti-Confederate Freedom Party Poster made by the Whigs when Featherston secularized Confederate schools.

This poster and others that portrayed the CFP in a negative light were heavily censored and their authors were imprisoned.

U.S. Propaganda Poster during SGW

Anti-Racism poster made by the USA and distributed in Africa during the Frozen Conflict (Second Great Game)


A fan-trailer of The Great War, by CongressmanCYD:

A fan-intro of Settling Accounts, by chahyll:

Flag of the International Order for Peace (an OTL parallel to the United Nations)


...and that's it, for now. I'd like to take a break.

All of you have a Happy New Year.