i guess... maybe turtledove knew about this and put it in as an easter egg for uber history buffs.
Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191
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i guess... maybe turtledove knew about this and put it in as an easter egg for uber history buffs.
A US Army Corpsman tends to the wounds of a member of the Confederate National Assault Force in the closing days of the Second Great War. Note the youth of the southern man, and the fear in his eyes; and see how the brave US soldier conducts his duty with care and with pride.
Except the guy in the German-styled gray uniform should be the US soldier and the guy in Khaki (butternut) the Confederate soldier.
No matter the Universe, one thing is always constant: the Fountain of Youth is really in Cuba. How else could Castro gain immortality?
Except the guy in the German-styled gray uniform should be the US soldier and the guy in Khaki (butternut) the Confederate soldier.
1. That color is clearly green, not khaki.
2. The guy in gray is from the National Assault Force, not the official Confederate army. Who is to say that a few of them didn't have gray uniforms?
It supports a theory that I have always held. Fidel Castro is clearly Chuck Norris' grandfather. There is no other way he could survive half the crap he's been through.
That's nothing. I just noticed that one of them is actually holding a Freedom Party Flag!
Sorry to burst your bubble, guys, but the flag in question is the actual historical battle flag of General Richard Taylor's Army, used in Lousiana in 1864 and 1865. It has nothing to do with the Freedom Party and existed in OTL during the Civil War. Taylor's army was supposed to have flags copied from those of the Army of Northern Virginia, i.e. the familiar red with blue crosses and white stars. But the flag manufacturer got the order wrong and reversed the colors, so the army in Lousiana was issued blue flags with red crosses instead of red flags with blue crosses.
I thought we already established that it was a naval jack?
And allow the enemy to win?
By the way, this is Neo-Confederate propaganda from the year 2011. The Freedom Party has taken their crusade online.
Only if your're slightly color blind.
Well, that is conceivable, however, they wouldn't have been German styled uniforms. Confederate uniforms were based on British and French models. US uniforms were based on German models.
Only if your're slightly color blind.
Well, that is conceivable, however, they wouldn't have been German styled uniforms. Confederate uniforms were based on British and French models. US uniforms were based on German models.
1. The color is close enough in my opinion. It could go either way.
2. I understand that, but, since official confederate uniforms never developed past the Civil War, I will make due with what I have in front of me. Besides, the Confederates were the Nazi analouge, so its fitting, and this picture served the purpose that I intended for it.
Well, if you did, you're wrong, if, as I am assuming, the flag being discussed was the one I've circled in yellow, which actually does look like a Freedom Party Flag.
The navy jack was simply a rectangular version of the standard red battle flag with blue cross and white stars. The flag circled in the picture is the Richard Taylor flag which looks like a Freedom Party Flag. It is NOT the navy jack.
I have 20/15 vision thank you very much.
I can see the flag in question just fine.And I admit that it was my mistake, it has been established that the flag was the Trans Mississippi Battle Flag. Mississippi=>Mississippi River=>Naval Jack. Simple mistake.
The Confederates in TL191 were the Nazi analogue, granted, but that doesn't mean they LOOKED like Nazis. In fact, the (admittedly limited) descriptions of their uniforms given in the books make it very plain that they did not resemble Nazi uniforms.
It's too bad we don't have somebody here in this thread who's really good with Photoshop. They could whip up some death camp pictures with guards wearing British uniforms (which is much closer to how the Confederates would have actually appeared as described in the books), or things along those lines. <sigh>
I could give it a shot. Admittedly, I'm not that good and I have other responsibilities.
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^That's brilliant
President Joseph McCarthy's eulogy of President Stevenson following his assassination in 1954. Although a Socialist, McCarthy was a hardliner in regards to the South, unlike Stevenson. After he left office, McCarthy was arrested for violation of Prohibition. He was pardoned following Prohibition's repeal.
Richard Nixon reaction after the success of the Nixon/Reagan ticket in the 1956 election.
He would become the first Republican President in decades, benefiting from the unpopularity of the McCarthy administration and the Democratic Party's split over Prohibition (Wet Democratic and Dry Democratic). Nixon would serve as the nation's 37th President until his resignation in 1974.
Umm he would be the first Republican president since Blaine 1881-1885 but it's highly unlikely that Nixon a Californian would be a Republican in TL-191 since they were pretty much reduced to being a small regional midwestern party that nobody with any serious political ambitions would ever join.
Well, I don't have photoshop. But yeah, that actually would be pretty cool.
Nixon... wasn't he one of the army guys that searched Flora Blackford's hotel room for bugs?