Famous people in a CS victory TL.

Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1875):
Nathan Forrest was a Memphis native during the War of Southern Secession and served as a cavalry Brigadier General during the war and as a slave trader before and after the war, he was a self made millionare. His firey nature gave him an infamous reputation in the Army of Kentucky.

His crowing achievement during the war was just after the CS conquest of Kentucky. Where he, alongside John Hunt Morgan launched two seperate raids into Union held territory. Morgan would raid Ohio and Indiana, Forrest would lead the Union on a "wild goose chase" throughout Union-held West Tennessee. His actions during said raid killed hundreds of Union troops from Nashville to Memphis, Forrest is reputed with killing around 20 himself.

After the war he had kept his promise to the slaves who went to war with him and freed them. Those who didn't remained. His wealth mainly intact from the war, aside from some damage and ransacking of his slave business in Memphis. He bounced back by 1870, he started investing in several different railroads in Tennessee and Mississippi. The "Forrest Line" that spans from Tupelo to Memphis is named in it's investor's honor.

In 1875 after a fight with a customer at his slave dealership, he challenged the man to a duel. Forrest killed the man by firing 3 bullets into the opponent's chest, Forrest however was shot in the stomach and the wound became septic, he died in December 1875. Memphis reacted to it's largest businessman's death with grief, his funeral was attended in numbers ranging in the tens of thousands, and included everything from ex-slaves to fellow veterans. Memphis today now has "Forrest Park", the final resting place of Forrest, where his equestrian statue stands and the "Nathan Bedford Forrest Memorial Bridge" that connected the city to West Memphis, Arkansas.

His decendents, namely Nathan Bedford Forrest II, was instrumental in trying to hinder the Socialist rebellion in Mississippi, however unsuccessfully.
 
Helmut Kohl (b. 1930)

Young man Kohl served in German Indochina. On 1968 him became member to Reich Tag. Kohl acted chancellor on years 1980 - 1996. One his greatest acts was annexation of Austria in 1986. After his chancellorship he retired and wrote books about history of Germany.
 
George S. McGovern (1922-1996) - United States Luftwaffe aviator. A shy boy born in tiny Bon Homme, Dakota and raised there and in nearby New Milwaukee, he, feeling the need to prove himself, took flying lessons, and when the war broke out, enlisted to fight. He went down in history, when, flying his Whitehead B-28 Challenger bomber Crazy Horse out of Morocco in 1946, he dropped the first atomic bomb on Cardiff, ending the Second World War between the Axis of NatSoc Britain, Fascist France, and Imperial Japan and the Allies of China, Germany, Russia, and the United States.

After the war he returned to New Milwaukee and finished his studies at Dakota Wesleyan University and became a history teacher at New Milwaukee High School, but suffered from recurring nightmares and guilt for his role in the atomic bombings of Cardiff and Portsmouth. Afflicted for the rest of his life with anxiety and depression, he became a noted advocate for peace, for better aid programs for veterans, and for awareness of mental issues. He passed away in 1996 at the age of 73, survived by his wife Eleanor and his daughters Ann and Susan.
 
Theodore Bilbo:
Teddy Bilbo was a Confederate politician from Mississippi during the First Great War.

When the first Socialist revolt hit the Mississippi Delta counties of Mississippi and spread to his home city of Pearl River. He personally led state forces against the Delta Socialist Republic (a Socialist republic built around the entire Mississippi Delta region of the state, it's capitol was Indianola) where in the Battle of Indianola, state forces with aide from an exhausted CS Army destroyed the rebels.

This situation further worsened an already poor situation in the state, Mississippi before the great war was the 5th richest state in the CSA, and was a minor political powerhouse. By the end of 1916 the state capitol and several collections of counties throughout the state were war torn from guerilla violence. Harsh measures were taken against blacks in the state, which involved further disenfranchisement.

Bilbo became a hardliner Governor for a Confederate Democrat, his embittered stance towards blacks already was further worsened, and first 10 years of his term was spent capturing or executing Socialist guerillas hiding out in the swamps of the Delta and Davis' Bend.
 
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