Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

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Picture of the KwaZulu-Natal house, a house in South Africa. According to a fringe theory, the location of Jake Featherston from 1944 onwards.

Ever since his actual death in 1944, conspiracy theories had floated around of Jake Featherston not being killed by Cassius Madison; instead, a body double was killed, and he escaped elsewhere in secret. These theories were made by Freedom Party diehards between the week of Featherston's death and the signing of the Confederate Instrument of Surrender and afterward during the readmission into the Union. These rumors were used in Thomas Dewey's campaign for the 1944 election, something that he would be criticized for by the Socialists in both 1944 and 1948.
South Africa was chosen as the location where Featherston escaped, as many Confederate war criminals escaped to South Africa. The Apartheid government (to try and avoid sanctions and possibly an invasion) had denied that Featherston was in their country and claimed not to know that Confederate war criminals were in their country. The Apartheid and post-Apartheid governments found no records of Featherston in their country. Nevertheless, claims of seeing Featherston in South Africa and beyond still emerged, although that's because of people resembling Featherston or other Confederate war criminals were mistaken for Featherston.
Both Clarence Potter and Willard Dixon (because he was recently made Confederate chief of the general staff, Willard was not put on trial) had said that Featherston was indeed, in fact, killed on that fateful day and were even cross-examed multiple times, and they were telling the truth.

"If that was a body double, then he sure as hell fooled me."
Clarence Potter, in the final chapter of How I Blew Up Philaphedia, published in 1950.
 
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Colorized picture of Don Partridge during the Pineville trial, ca. late 1944.

Partridge was put on trial for "willing to allow vile actions to take place," as in he allowed Featherston to carry out the Population Reduction. Partridge was found guilty, despite claiming his innocence of not knowing of the Population Reduction. He was sentenced to life in prison soon afterward. Partridge died in 1965, being killed by an angry Confederate diehard for "defeatism."
Historians, to this day, debate wheater Partridge knew the extent of the Population Reduction.
 
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Picture of the KwaZulu-Natal house, a house in South Africa. According to a fringe theory, the location of Jake Featherston from 1944 onwards.

Ever since his actual death in 1944, conspiracy theories had floated around of Jake Featherston not being killed by Cassius Madison; instead, a body double was killed, and he escaped elsewhere in secret. These theories were made by Freedom Party diehards between the week of Featherston's death and the signing of the Confederate Instrument of Surrender and afterward during the readmission into the Union. These rumors were used in Thomas Dewey's campaign for the 1944 election, something that he would be criticized for by the Socialists in both 1944 and 1948.
South Africa was chosen as the location where Featherston escaped, as many Confederate war criminals escaped. The Apartheid government (to try and avoid sanctions and possibly an invasion) had denied that Featherston was in their country and claimed not to know that Confederate war criminals were in their country. The Apartheid and post-Apartheid governments found no records of Featherston in their country. Nevertheless, claims of seeing Featherston in South Africa and beyond still emerged, although that's because of people resembling Featherston or mistook other Confederate war criminals for Jake Featherston.
Both Clarence Potter and Willard Dixon (because he was recently made Confederate chief of the general staff, Willard was not put on trial) had said that Featherston was indeed, in fact, killed on that fateful day and were even cross-examed multiple times, and they were telling the truth.

"If that was a body double, then he sure as hell fooled me."
Clarence Potter, in the final chapter of How I Blew Up Philaphedia, published in 1950.
Would this also be believed about Lulu Mattox?
 
Would this also be believed about Lulu Mattox?
I think the difference is that Lulu have her bullet in her head as well as being in pain when the plane crash in Georgia. So she’ll likely would’ve been dead or at least heavily, disabled even without Featherstone shot her in the head to go to South Africa.
 
Would this also be believed about Lulu Mattox?
Yeah probably.

I think the difference is that Lulu have her bullet in her head as well as being in pain when the plane crash in Georgia. So she’ll likely would’ve been dead or at least heavily, disabled even without Featherstone shot her in the head to go to South Africa.
Some random conspiracy theorist: "That's what they want you to believe! How do you not know that Featherston and Mattox didn't marry and made South Africa their permanent honeymoon, and Featherston put a double in her place?! What do you mean that the skull people thought was Featherston's was Lulu's, and people like Potter said that Lulu was with the group on that fateful day, and they were telling the truth?!"
 
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Fielding L. Wright, the last governor of Confederate Mississippi.
Wright was removed from his position after the end of the Second Great War due to his involvement in the Population Reduction.
 
"If that was a body double, then he sure as hell fooled me."
Clarence Potter, in the final chapter of How I Blew Up Philaphedia, published in 1950.
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Worn out copy of How I Blew Up Philaphedia, published in 1950, written by Clarence Potter.

How I Blew Up Philaphedia was Potter's autobiography, describing his career and how he launched his raid that destroyed western Philaphedia. Theories about Featherston surviving the end of the Second Great War and Potter being interviewed and cross-examed about the day Featherston died were also included in the book. Five years later, Potter passed away from old age.
To this day, many Americans feel split about Potter. Some put him in the category of "the good Confederates," sighting his opposition to Featherston as proof. Others don't feel the same, sighting him not killing Featherston when he had the chance, allegedly romanticizing Anne Colleton, and helping to destroy western Philaphedia as proof.
Potter's book was put in various English classes in the US. However, in the 2020s, various states, including some southern states (mainly Democratic States), banned the book from being read in classrooms.
 
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Sergeant Major Johann-Pedell Bokassa, who fought against the French in Africa

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A young
Idi Amin (far left) with his family. Amin would later become involved in guerrilla tactics against the British. He is notoriously known as "The Butcher" for his torture and massacre of White British soldiers during the Second Great War.
Is Bokassa still obsessed with Napoleon, or did he declare himself Kaiser of the Central African Empire?
Did Amin stay involved in the army, eventually become a dictator, and (probably) get syphilis?
 
Austin Fredrick Killian (October 18th, 1885-January 7th, 1954) was a Confederate artist and writer best known for being a close friend of Jake Featherston, when both were in their mid-late teens. He later wrote about their friendship in the book "Young Featherston: My Best Friend" (1952), being preceded by many paintings of Featherston at that time.
 

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...actually I could bring this up now, for no particular reason:

Anyone else ever get the idea that the Nathan Bedford Forrest III seen in the books is not supposed to be historical 1905–1943 one? I just can't see a 36-year-old guy being the C. S. Army Chief of Staff in 1941, even with the rampant nepotism that probably was still in place during the Featherston era. Also, this wouldn't be the first example of Turtledove disregarding actual descendants of Civil War figures in favour of fictional ones, as the Stuart Jr. and Stuart III characters exist in the books as well, and neither corresponds to their real counterpart.

The books were also written almost 20 years ago when information on such relatively minor figures was not readily available, so while Turtledove might not have intended e.g. Forrest to be fictional, the traits he has de facto make him one.
Am I the only one who believes that he was loosely based on Erwin Rommel?
 
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