Particularly if you call it a Turtledove timeline and don't want actual Turtledove characters in a Turtledove timeline. I assume Morrel, Dowling, Blackford and Hamburger and all the other expies of real-life people will also not be showing up for the same reason Featherston will not be.![]()
GOD IN HEAVEN!!!!!!! OK!!! OK, I surrender!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sheesh!!
Look, . . . I am NOT interested in the POV characters of Turtledove's. I am more interested in the political sweep of his narrative, which I find to be off in many places and questionable in others. Some are big and important to me, but no one else. Others are big and important to others, but not me!
For example, I find it ridiculous that the ruling party of the CSA for the 19th and into the 20th C. would call themselves "Whigs"! The folks who seceded were mainly Democrats IOTL. Doesn't it make more sense for them to keep that name than change it to the name of the opposing party before secession??
And the few OTL Whigs in the CSA; what, now, do they call themselves now that the Democrats have usurped their name??
I understand that this isn't a big deal to many of you, but it IS for ME!
I really started this thread to get HELP from you folks, as many of you seem to have knowledge about this period that complements mine.
Instead, I get attacked. It is very disheartening.