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Story of the Donner Brigade
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Several men from the Donner Brigade in Northern Alabama on an anti-partisan sweep, circa 1943.

In early 1940, the Confederate Department of Justice got a phone call from Attorney Koenig's office informing them that President Featherston had decided to give "suspended sentences to so-called "honorable poachers" and, depending on their behavior on the front, to pardon them." The order would specify state that they should not be of crimes involving trap setting, and to be enrolled in the marksmen rifle corps. Their commander was a man by the name of Hugh Donner, a Freedom Party member who had a history of being very violent which included raping adolescent girls and by all accounts, was a sadist.
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A photo of Standard Leader Hugh Donner, circa 1941. Donner had served in the Army of Tennessee as an infantryman during the First Great War and had fought against the Negro Marxist Revolutionaries in Alabama. He would join the Freedom Party in 1921 and would also work at a bank and a knitwear factory. He was convicted in 1934 after raping a 14 year old office girl and stealing government property. The party would expel him and was forced to reapply for membership. After serving a 2 year sentence, Donner was released, but was incarcerated yet again for rape. In 1938, he would join the Freedom Party Guards in the Security Department and from there, would become the leader of a special unit.
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The emblem of the Donner Brigade aka the 36th Special Security Division. The emblem featured a Griswold revolver, a broken sabre, and a deathshead symbol. The Union Army and the Negro Partisans would refer to this unit as the Head Hunters as a reference to both the men's criminal history and to their emblem.

In late 1940, the unit would be readied for their first anti-partisan sweep in South Carolina with Assault Band Leader Donner under his command with 300 men (who were all selected due to their disciplinary and criminal records). In the month of October alone, the Donner Brigade would kill a total of 74 Negro Partisans (51 were killed in firefights while all of the others were brutally executed by the men of the Brigade.) According to the author Matthew Cooper, "Wherever the Donner unit operated, murder and rape formed an everyday part of life and indiscriminate slaughter, beatings, and looting were rife." In June of 1941 alone, the unit would murder 4,000 Negroes in the Anderson Ghetto and 316 partisans and a further 700 labeled as "fugitive Negroes." In September of 1941, the unit was authorized to be expanded to a regiment sized unit, with new recruits being enlisted from the criminal underclass and military delinquents.
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A member of the Donner Regiment in his camouflage uniform with a Colt M42 that he picked up off a dead partisan, circa 1942.

Throughout 1942 and most of 1943, the Regiment would operate throughout the Black Belt regions of the Confederacy, doing anti-partisan operations within the regions. But by late 1943 as the war situation grew dire for the CSA, the unit, now a division, was committed to the frontlines against the invading Union Army. There, they would prove to as atrocious to captured Union soldiers as to the African-Confederate population. The most notable example was the Scottsboro Massacre, where the men of the Donner Division executed 140 captured Union Soldiers (most of whom were whites) in a very brutal manner. During a skirmish near the town of Wattsville outside of Birmingham, Donner was seriously wounded and was sent to the rear. Replacing him was Chief Assault Leader Samuel Wellington, who tried to reorganize the battered unit, but unfortunately, with Donner gone, many of the men would desert from the division. By June 2nd, 1944, he realized that his unit virtually ceased to exist and so, would resign from his post. The remnants of the 36th Division would eventually be wiped out during the fighting in Birmingham by June 22nd. In August 2nd, 1944, Donner would be captured by the Union Army while attempting to flee to Mexico at the city of Shreveport in Louisiana, and he had died at their hands by August 8th, he was lynched by a group of blacks who happened to recognize him. Allegedly, the soldiers who were guarding him had helped them execute Donner.

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I bet all of you reading this knows what OTL Group that I am basing this off of.​
 
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Story of the Donner Brigade
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Several men from the Donner Brigade in Northern Alabama on an anti-partisan sweep, circa 1943.

In early 1940, the Confederate Department of Justice got a phone call from Attorney Koenig's office informing them that President Featherston had decided to give "suspended sentences to so-called "honorable poachers" and, depending on their behavior on the front, to pardon them." The order would specify state that they should not be of crimes involving trap setting, and to be enrolled in the marksmen rifle corps. Their commander was a man by the name of Hugh Donner, a Freedom Party member who had a history of being very violent which included raping adolescent girls and by all accounts, was a sadist.
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A photo of Standard Leader Hugh Donner, circa 1941. Donner had served in the Army of Tennessee as an infantryman during the First Great War and had fought against the Negro Marxist Revolutionaries in Alabama. He would join the Freedom Party in 1921 and would also work at a bank and a knitwear factory. He was convicted in 1934 after raping a 14 year old office girl and stealing government property. The party would expel him and was forced to reapply for membership. After serving a 2 year sentence, Donner was released, but was incarcerated yet again for rape. In 1938, he would join the Freedom Party Guards in the Security Department and from there, would become the leader of a special unit.
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The emblem of the Donner Brigade aka the 36th Special Security Division. The emblem featured a Griswold revolver, a broken sabre, and a deathshead symbol. The Union Army and the Negro Partisans would refer to this unit as the Head Hunters as a reference to both the men's criminal history and to their emblem.

In late 1940, the unit would be readied for their first anti-partisan sweep in South Carolina with Assault Band Leader Donner under his command with 300 men (who were all selected due to their disciplinary and criminal records). In the month of October alone, the Donner Brigade would kill a total of 74 Negro Partisans (51 were killed in firefights while all of the others were brutally executed by the men of the Brigade.) According to the author Matthew Cooper, "Wherever the Donner unit operated, murder and rape formed an everyday part of life and indiscriminate slaughter, beatings, and looting were rife." In June of 1941 alone, the unit would murder 4,000 Negroes in the Anderson Ghetto and 316 partisans and a further 700 labeled as "fugitive Negroes." In September of 1941, the unit was authorized to be expanded to a regiment sized unit, with new recruits being enlisted from the criminal underclass and military delinquents.
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A member of the Donner Regiment in his camouflage uniform with a Colt M42 that he picked up off a dead partisan, circa 1942.

Throughout 1942 and most of 1943, the Regiment would operate throughout the Black Belt regions of the Confederacy, doing anti-partisan operations within the regions. But by late 1943 as the war situation grew dire for the CSA, the unit, now a division, was committed to the frontlines against the invading Union Army. There, they would prove to as atrocious to captured Union soldiers as to the African-Confederate population. The most notable example was the Scottsboro Massacre, where the men of the Donner Division executed 140 captured Union Soldiers (who of whom were whites) in a very brutal manner. During a skirmish near the town of Wattsville outside of Birmingham, Donner was seriously wounded and was sent to the rear. Replacing him was Chief Assault Leader Samuel Wellington, who tried to reorganize the battered unit, but unfortunately, with Donner gone, many of the men would desert from the division. By June 2nd, 1944, he realized that his unit virtually ceased to exist and so, would resign from his post. The remnants of the 36th Division would eventually be wiped out during the fighting in Birmingham by June 22nd. In August 2nd, 1944, Donner would be captured by the Union Army while attempting to flee to Mexico at the city of Shreveport in Louisiana, and he had died at their hands by August 8th, he was lynched by a group of blacks who happened to recognize him. Allegedly, the soldiers who were guarding him had helped them execute Donner.

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I bet all of you reading this knows what OTL Group that I am basing this off of.​
That was chillingly good.
 
Some graphics that I had made for TL-191


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A catalog page from Shotgun News made in 2002.
Very cool, I can imagine seeing ads like this in gun magazines in the 1960's of TL-191.
I would've liked to have bought a Tredegar 1938, a Griswald 35 and a V37. :cool:
 
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A bronze shield on the front of the German Aviation Collection in Berlin, circa 2019.

The German Aviation Collection was first established in 1936 in a former factory building, which the funding and concept of the museum was provided by the Minister of Aviation, Hermann Goering and by General Manfred von Richthofen, where were present at the museum during it's opening ceremony. The centerpiece of the collection is the giant Dorner X, which was the world's largest flying boat. Throughout the SGW, the Museum would obtain several Russian, British, and French Aircraft for both display purposes and would host a war bond drive. Following the war, the museum would receive it's first major expansion which lasted from 1945 to 1948 before reopening in 1949, which it also have a large number of new aircraft in it's collection such as the Junkers Ju-22, Fokker D-109, Focke Wulf 190, even a few Union and Confederate aircraft such as a Hounddog and a P-27 Sky Shark alongside the numerous other Radius Aircraft that were captured during the war by the Germans such as a Spitfire Mk. XIV, Arsenal VB 10, and Yakovlev Yak-9U. Over the years, the museum was expanded another two times (in the 1960s and 1990s respectively.) Which there a great many more aircraft added to it's collection including numerous Japanese Aircraft acquired during the 1990s following the Dissolution of the Japanese Empire, a Junkers Ju-689 Supersonic Turbo Airliner of 1970s vintage, and the collection even including German and Austrian Space Vehicles (such as the Freya 10 Space Capsule.) Today, the Collection is widely regarded the World's Largest Air and Space Museums and also one of the best in the world.
 
I wonder what Hermann Goering would be doing in the TL-191 universe
He was probably in the Luftwaffe during the second great war, might have even have been in the Luftwaffe in between the wars as well, a career officer.
He probably never got addicted to morphine either.
 
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Well he likely continued serving under the Red Baron until the end of the war, stayed in the Air Force, rose the ranks and possibly eventually commanded a wing or air fleet in SGW
 
In both Great Wars, Russia had plenty of Armenian volunteers to fill out it's ranks, particularly when it came to fighting the Turks whenever the war against the Germans took priority. in both wars, they fought in the Caucasus against the Turks in vain attempts to carve out a nation for themselves in the Caucasus. When Armenian manpower was depleted at the end of the Great War, they were simply recharged by Armenian refugees fleeing from the gneocide the Turks were carrying out.


In the Second Great War, though the Russians strictly prohibited such tactics, some Armenian units turned their troops into people bombs to use against the Ottomans, especially in the latter stages of the war just before the superbombing of Petrograd, with some Armenian troops even continuing to fight the Ottomans even after Russia's surrender to Germany.


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Armenian troops during the First Great War

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Armenian troops during the Second Great War.


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Limonka grenades, a favourite weapon of the Armenians, particularly when it came to people bombings. It was surprisingly easy to turn a soldier into a people bomb. Soldiers had limonka grenades tied to a belt which was hidden under their uniform. All a soldier had to do was pull a pin and the grenades, with 60 grams of explosives each, would go off like a domino effect.
 

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Confederate Admirals during the Second Great War

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Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, at Confederate Naval Headquarters in Charleston, circa 1942.

Born in 1885 in Fredericksburg Texas, Nimitz served as a naval officer during the First Great War as commanding officer of the destroyer CSS Lucas M. Perry and the armored cruiser CSS Judah P. Benjamin in the Atlantic Fleet. In the years before the Rise of Featherston, Nimitz would the commander of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base from 1922 to 1930 before commanding the 1st Cruiser Squadron for two years before being appointed as commander of the Confederate Atlantic Fleet, in turn he would occupy this position until 1939 when he was appointed by Jake Featherston as Chief of Naval Operations. Nimitz would be commander of the Confederate Navy throughout the 2nd Great War until the very end, when he ordered his navy to stand down and to surrender to the USN. After the war, Nimitz would be president of the Sailors of the Confederacy, a branch of the Sons of the Confederacy movement from his release from prison in 1955 to 1961. He would die from pneumonia in 1966 in his apartment in the city of Houston, Texas. He would be remembered as one of the least worse Confederate Commanders during the SGW in spite of him declaring a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

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Vice Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, aboard the CSS Virginia, circa 1938.

Born on February 26th, 1882 in the city of Henderson, Kentucky to a Confederate Army Officer named Manning Marius, who served in both the War of Secession and the Second Mexican War. After graduating from the Confederate Naval Officer's College in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1904, he would serve aboard the battleship CSS Sheperdstown from 1904 to 1909. During the First Great War, Kimmel would serve aboard the battleship CSS Constitution as a gunnery officer. In the interwar years, Kimmel would rise in the ranks as he took several desk jobs with the Confederate Naval Department from 1918 to 1930 before taking command of the 3rd Destroyer Squadron of the Gulf Fleet then would take command of the Pocket Battleship CSS Chihuahua from 1935 to 1937. In 1937, he would be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral, taking command of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet from his flagship the CSS Virginia. In February of 1941, Admiral Kimmel would be made commander of the Confederate Atlantic Fleet, in which he prove to be an ineffective leader, which he was removed from his position by President Featherston following a disastrous naval engagement off the coast of Delaware in May of 1942. Kimmel would be made commander of the Corpus Christi Naval Base as a Rear Admiral until war's end.

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Fleet Admiral John S. McCain Sr., photographed following his capture in Wilmington, circa 1944.

Born in 1884 in Mississippi as a son of a plantation owner named John Sidney. In 1906 as part of his studies at the University of Atlanta, he would enroll at the Confederate Army Academy, but would instead be enrolled and enter the Naval Officer's Academy at Charleston. During his time there, it was discovered that he had a horrid hearing problem, but this was wavered due to the Confederate need for officers. Following his graduation, McCain would be posted aboard the new dreadnought CSS Domination of the Atlantic Fleet. During the First Great War, McCain would serve aboard the Armored Cruiser CSS Horace L. Hunley before being transferred to the CSS Arkansas, which he was aboard her when she was scuttled in the Delaware Bay in 1918. During the Interwar Period, McCain would serve aboard the battleships North Carolina, George Washington, and the cruiser CSS Manassas before taking command of the Protected Cruiser CSS La Paz in 1934. In 1938, McCain would be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral and was put in command of Force B with his flagship, the newly finished CSS James Longstreet, which he would hold this command until 1942. With the removal of Admiral Kimmel, Featherston would appoint McCain to be the commander of the Confederate Atlantic Fleet as a Fleet Admiral. During his time, McCain would do his best to fight the Union Navy in the Atlantic, in which he would survive the superbombing of Charleston as he was aboard the Battleship CSS Robert E. Lee. During the Battle of Wilmington, McCain would be commander of all Confederate forces in the region before ultimately surrender on June 17th, 1944. Due to the combined stress from combat operations, anxiety, and heart disease had take a toll on him and would eventually die the city of Charlotte in North Carolina in August of 1944.

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Fleet Admiral Charles M. Cooke Jr., at his headquarters in Vicksburg, Mississippi, circa September of 1942.

Charles Cooke would be born on December 19th, 1886 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. After receiving a degree from the University of Arkansas, Cooke would then enter into the Naval Officer's Academy in Charleston, graduating in 1910. In 1912, Cooke would be assigned as an ensign to the battleship CSS Florida. Following the decommissioning and disarmament of the Florida, Cooke would then be reassigned to the Inland Fleet, commanding the gunboat CSS Natchez in the Mississippi River till war's end in 1917. Following the First Great War, Cooke would remain with the Inland Fleet, commanding the gunboats Wilman, Samson, Bell City over a period from 1919 to 1926, Cooke would then take command of the Confederate 2nd River Flotilla of the Mississippi River Squadron as a Rear Admiral. Cooke would be promoted to the rank of Fleet Admiral upon taking command of the Confederate Inland Fleet in March of 1938. During the Second Great War, Admiral Cooke and his fleet would closely cooperate with the Confederate Army, especially during Operation Blackbeard and Coalscuttle. Admiral Cooke would surrender to the Union Army at New Orleans with the remnants of the Confederate Inland Fleet. After being released from prison in the 1950s, he would settle down in Louisiana to live out a quiet life until his ultimate passing in 1970. However, he would be interviewed in 1969 for the documentary series World at War.

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Fleet Admiral Robert Henry English in his study at the Gulf Fleet Headquarters, circa November of 1941.

Robert E. English would be born in the town of Warrenton, Georgia and would be a graduate of the Naval Officer Academy of 1911. During the First Great War, English would part of the submarine force, commanding the submarine CSS Snapper. During the interwar period, English would be part of the reconstructed naval submarine force, commanding the 6th Submarine Flotilla at it's base at Guantanamo Bay from 1929 to 1940. In 1940, English would be promoted to Fleet Admiral of the Confederate Gulf/Caribbean Fleet, to which his ships would provide gunfire support to the Confederate Invasion of Haiti. Admiral English would eventually be killed when his plane was shot down by Union Navy Hellcat fighters over Haiti in 1943. His replacement was Admiral Jules James, who commanded the Confederate Caribbean Fleet until surrendering in July of 1944 at Tampa, Florida.
 
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the Singer Building in New York City being repaired after being partially destroyed during a confederate air raid in New York City in 1944, during the raid a confederate bomber plane dropped a bomb directly at the spire, blowing up the spire and making the remaining upper floors collapse and fall in to the streets below (crushing 2 american barrels). reducing the size of the former skyscraper from 612 feet to only 413 feet. The tower blazed through out the night but in the morning it was no longer the 7th tallest building in the world any more, even the charred skeleton of the Philadelphia city hall was taller. Although Jake Featherston had a personal interest in architecture he was pleased to here that another American land mark was destroyed. after the war the singer building was left abandoned until 1957 when repairs begun the building was fully restored in 1959 and was re-opened in 1960.
singer Building being fixed in 1959 (left) and the Singer Building today in 2020 (right)
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George HW Bush was the confederate bomber that destroyed the Singer Building and other houses and buildings in air raids at the United States during the Second Great War. After the C.S.A surrendered Bush was on a bomber plane when he herd on the radio that the C.S.A surrendered, the bomber plane flew back to a air strip but when they got back to the ground 30 Yankees held them at gun point all of the people on the plane stepped off the plane and were arrested. Bush was later acquitted but when it was founded out that Bush too part to many air raids killing lots of people he was arrested and was sent to a 76 year prison sentence. today Bush is still alive but on parole now he's living in a suburban house in Florida. In a recent interview he stated that he is now a changed man, he no longer has racist views ageist black ppl and a hatred ageist the United States. BTW Bush did not mean to destroy the singer building, he was just doing his job and he destroyed the singer building purely coincidental.
George HW Bush during the second great war (Left) and Bush being escorted out of prison in 2020 (right)
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at first i was gonna do Bob Dole instead of Bush sr but i remembered that Dole's from Kansas, but yet again Henry Turtledove made Patton a cs general and he's from California irl.
 
at first i was gonna do Bob Dole instead of Bush sr but i remembered that Dole's from Kansas, but yet again Henry Turtledove made Patton a cs general and he's from California irl.
that's a bit more justified than you might think: Patton's family is actually historically from Virginia and his more immediate ancestors had been dispossessed from there as a result of the Civil War (i can't remember if they were actually Confederate-aligned, but the point is that they left the state as a result of the war IOTL) and that's how they ended up in California
 
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