Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

Spencer Pease

The border between the United States and the former Dominion of Canada was the longest fortified boundary in the world. After the Great War, the occupation and eventual annexation of the former Anglo-Canadian provinces into the Union rendered the border moot. In the 1960s, as part of the broader environmental movement, activists called for converting the old fortifications into a vast ecological network. This would become the "Green Wall." *

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Grassland along the Maine-New Brunswick border.

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View of the town of Saanich on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The island was mined during the prewar era and was a recreation area after the Second Great War.

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Voyageurs National Park along the Minnesota-Manitoba border. Monument to the Great War not far from the state line.

*This is inspired by the OTL Green Belt along the former Iron Curtain.
 

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S. Marlowski

S. Marlowski

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A photograph taken by the City of Richmond engineers of the stairwell of the long abandoned Presidential Bunker (which had served as Featherston's HQ and residence from February of 1944 until the last days of his life when he made his ill-fated flight towards the Deep South,) circa 1988.
 
Historyman 14

Historyman 14

The Fenian Brotherhood charge of upon Canadian troops, leading to the Fenians victory.

In America, North and South, the Irish (Catholic and Protestant.) would have profound affects to the USA and CSA, and to themselves. During the Second Mexican War, the Fenian Brotherhood, (A Irish republican organisation founded just before the War of Successor.) took advantage of the conflict, and it stockpile of arms, and carry out raids into Canada, in the hopes of gaining freedom for Ireland and their kin still there.

Despite victories over Canadian militia, they would be force to flee back to America in the face of British soldiers, and many members arrested, and the event was largely forgotten in favor of the greater war, and it ending. However, it would come to be remember later as 'Irtish bravely against the British threat' as the Union found solidarity with the Irish, and later with Ireland itself.

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Irish-American Friendship and Unity, 1920. Denis Aloysius McCarthy would in that year released a poem that emphasized the historic connections between Ireland and America, which would be circulated in U.S. papers across the Union, and widely popular.


When America first uprose
And flung defiance at her foes
No laggards were the Irish then
In purse or purpose, means or men.

And ever since in all our wars,
Wherever gleamed the Stripes and Stars,
The loyal Irish, heart and hand,
Have fought for this beloved land.

So in the springtime of the year
When St. Patrick’s Day again is here,
T’is not alone on Irish breasts
The spray of Ireland’s shamrocks rests.

Our great Republic’s heart
Reveals today its tend’rer part,
As, smiling in her state serene,
She wears a touch of Ireland’s green.


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S. Marlowski

S. Marlowski

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Union Army soldiers belonging to the 442nd Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Memphis, circa 1943. The 442nd Regiment would be largely made up of Southern born residents hailing from Kentucky and/or West Virginia, who were pretty much a hated group in the Union, and as such starting in late 1942, the War Department would form this unit which was to be a segregated one with Southerners. During the war, the unit would fight in many engagements in Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana and the regiment would wind up receiving a large number of awards including Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts, and even 21 of it's members were awarded the Medal of Honor, which proved for the unit to be one of the most decorated regiments of the US Army during the SGW.
 

Soundwave3591

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Confederate Air Force Fairchild V-41 "Jughead" heavy bombers hitting a US oil field in Pennsylvania, 1941
While the famous Hughes V-24 "Razorback" was the most well-recognized of the CSAF's Bombers, a limited production run of a heavier bomber with greater carrying capacity was called for for strategic strikes against key industrial targets such as oil fields and factories. Essentially an upscaled V-24, the Jugheads were a quantum leap forward in CSA aircraft development all the same, with a carrying capacity that would not be matched by the USA until the Boeing Superfortress was developed.

Attrition, combined with the CSA's limited production capacity, took their toll on the planes, however, and by 1943 only a few squadrons remained, carefully husbanded by the CSAF for strategic missions across Yankee lines. Their last major deployment was the long-range raid on the US Superbomb program in Hanford, Washington State in late 1943.
While several of the aircraft remained in the inventory after the attempt to shut down the US superbomb program, their viability as a strategic resource was curtailed simply by their limited numbers. These remaining aircraft were deployed to isolated bases far from the US advance to keep them from being destroyed or captured, with some preparations being made on at least one of the planes to carry the CSA's own superbomb, though the device was never finished to the level where it could be air-dropped, forcing its deployment to Philadelphia in a commando raid instead.
With the end of the war, the dozen or so remaining aircraft were either seized by the US or destroyed.


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Post-War, the design was adapted by the Italian Regia Aeronautica into the PIaggio P.133.
 

Soundwave3591

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The Incomplete hull of the Confederate Navy carrier Douglas Corrigan, seen in the post-war gathering of the Confederate Fleet in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, 1945.

Built with input and assistance from British Engineers, the "Douggy" was to be the CSA's first purpose-built fleet carrier, as opposed to the cruiser conversions used as testbeds in the early part of the war. Intended for patrolling the sealanes of the south Atlantic to interdict trade between the USA, Brazil and Chile, the needs of the war meant the vessel was never actually finished, and the empty hulk was towed from Mobile to Narragansett Bay at the end of the war.
 
Historyman 14

Historyman 14

Soundwave3591 said:
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The Incomplete hull of the Confederate Navy carrier Douglas Corrigan, seen in the post-war gathering of the Confederate Fleet in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, 1945.

Built with input and assistance from British Engineers, the "Douggy" was to be the CSA's first purpose-built fleet carrier, as opposed to the cruiser conversions used as testbeds in the early part of the war. Intended for patrolling the sealanes of the south Atlantic to interdict trade between the USA, Brazil and Chile, the needs of the war meant the vessel was never actually finished, and the empty hulk was towed from Mobile to Narragansett Bay at the end of the war.
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Alas, poor CSA carrier.

The US would either scuttled it, or sink it in a weapons test. Or even try and sell it to an ally.
 
Allochronian

Allochronian

Hispanic Confederates in TL-191, part 2

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Adolf de la Huerta (1881-1955)
Born before the sale of Sonora and Chihuahua from Mexico to the CSA, de la Huerta was from an influential family in Guaymas. After the War of 1881, his family was one of the first to receive and support Confederate influence, especially from the Whig Party. de la Huerta fought in the Confederate army against the Unionites during FGW. After the war, de la Huerta became heavily involved in politics. He switched from being a Whig supporter to that of an adherent of the Radical Liberal Party. He was acquainted with other radical liberals, such as Calles and Obregon. Similar to many former members, he switched political affiliations toward the Confederate Freedom Party under Featherston's Confederacy to avoid persecution. Beginning in the 1930's, de la Huerta was Governor of Sonora and was a staunch member of the CFP. During SGW, de la Huerta was ordered to remain in Sonora and provide a defensive position against a possible U.S. invasion. When the Confederacy surrendered, de la Huerta attempted to cooperate with the U.S. military authorities, but he refused to give up members of the CFP. de la Huerta was put on trial, but was found not guilty due to lack of evidence of his involvement in the Population Reduction. However, his history of commanding troops against U.S. forces during the war earned him house arrest. After the war, he campaigned to have Sonora annexed to Mexico, but his pleas were not successful. de la Huerta died in 1955 of natural causes in Guaymas.

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Abelard Rodríguez (1889-1967)
Unlike de la Huerta, Rodriguez was born in a poor family in Guaymas after the annexation of Sonora to the CSA. Initially working as a copper miner, Rodriguez would eventually be enlisted in the C.S. army to fight against the USA during FGW. After the war, he joined the Radical Liberal Party and remained a life-long member. When the Confederate Freedom Party gained power in the CSA, Rodriguez joined an underground movement of Confederates who were against Featherston. During SGW, Rodriguez was in communication with U.S. military leaders and was able to become involved in sabotage activities against Calles and Obregon. After the war, Rodriguez gained popularity in the American Southwest and support from the U.S. government. During military occupation, he argued for Sonora to be annexed by the USA. When military occupation ended in Sonora, Rodriguez was given the position of Governor of Sonora and ruled the state until his death in 1967.

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Enrique Creel (1854-1931)
A founder of the Creel-Terrazas family. Creel belonged to one of the most powerful ones in Chihuahua. Historically, the family were Whig supporters until Featherston rose to power. With the help of Luis Terrazas, the Creel-Terrazas family united to provide support to the Freedomite government before and during the SGW. After the dissolution of the CSA, many members the family were put on trial and sent to prison/put to death for their deep connections to the CFP.

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Luis Terrazas (1829-1923)
Co-founder of the Creel-Terrazas family. Terrazas became acquainted with Creel once their family members started to intermarry. The family would eventually fall into disgrace after the end of SGW. Ironically, the founders never lived to see the CSA get taken over by Featherston. Instead their descendants would take the blame for their involvement in the Freedomite government of the CSA.
 
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S. Marlowski

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Howard Hughes boarding his Hughes H-35 Racer, circa 1935. Howard R. Hughes Jr. was born to an oil tycoon in Houston Texas in 1905, in which throughout the 1920s and 30s, he would be one of the major tycoons from the Confederacy, such as owning the Hughes Film Studios, Hughes Tool Company, and most famously, the Hughes Aircraft Company. In the early 1930s prior to the rise of the Freedom Party, Howard Hughes would join the Freedom Party and would be a massive donor to the Party for it's funds as well rising quickly within it's ranks. The Hughes Aircraft Corporation would after the election of Featherston would become part of his rearmament plans for the CS Armed Forces as it developed new weapons for the Confederacy's Military, notably being the Hughes H-38 Hound-Dog fighter, which was a result of Featherston ordering Hughes to developed a fighter version of the H-35 Racer. Throughout the late 1930s and into the Second Great War, the Hughes Aircraft Company would produce large numbers of aircraft for the CSN and CSAF as well as making new technological aviation developments for the CSAF. Following the Confederacy's defeat in 1944, Hughes, once a bigshot in the Freedom Party and now wanted by US Authorities, would first flee to Mexico before escaping to South Africa via the now infamous Veracruz-Cape Town Rat Line. After getting to South Africa, he would assist other fellow Freedomites escape to South Africa from 1945 onwards. In 1947, he along with French Expatriate Emile Dewoitine would found a new aviation company which became known as Atlas. For the remainder of his life until his death in 1976, Hughes would design aircraft for the South African Military, most notably the Atlas Cheetah which was first introduced in 1975, less than year before his death.
 

New Cleo Genesis

Soundwave3591 said:
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The Incomplete hull of the Confederate Navy carrier Douglas Corrigan, seen in the post-war gathering of the Confederate Fleet in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, 1945.

Built with input and assistance from British Engineers, the "Douggy" was to be the CSA's first purpose-built fleet carrier, as opposed to the cruiser conversions used as testbeds in the early part of the war. Intended for patrolling the sealanes of the south Atlantic to interdict trade between the USA, Brazil and Chile, the needs of the war meant the vessel was never actually finished, and the empty hulk was towed from Mobile to Narragansett Bay at the end of the war.
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Should we infer from this that Corrigan is dead by the time the vessel is named? Historically the USA did not name vessels after living people, although it might not apply in TL-191 of course.
 

Soundwave3591

New Cleo Genesis said:
Should we infer from this that Corrigan is dead by the time the vessel is named? Historically the USA did not name vessels after living people, although it might not apply in TL-191 of course.
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the CSA might do things differently. Their unique History is even shorter than that of the USA, as i expect Featherston would exclude historic figures with "Yankee Connotations" IE pre-1860 figureheads and personalities.
 

Zoidberg12

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General Daniel MacArthur (January 26, 1884-May 4, 1968), seated in an antique French chair in an abandoned Tennessee mansion shortly before the end of the First Great War, circa August, 1917.
 
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