Huh! I just wanted to know why they would not be considered for the Richmond 10. I mean, Pinkard may have been the number 1 when it came to extermination, but these two should cut it at least close.
Philadelphia. The big shots were tried in Philadelphia, in a boring non-descript office building, like that place in Office Space, not from from the War Department.
And Scott and Green
were tried, and hanged. I think Scott was promoted to Pinkard's spot when the latter went west. Their trials went right alongside Jeff's.
You know it has just occurred to me to wonder how The Treaty of Arlington affected the Confederate 'Right to Keep and Bear Arms' - would the Treaty essentially enforce tighter gun control laws on the Civilian population in the South, as well as pull the teeth of the Confederate Army?
Having asked that question, here's another - would the ongoing rivalry between the Confederacy and the United States have resulted in tighter gun control or in a greater ease of access to military-grade firepower?
Featherston and Pinkard turned in only military-issued weapons; Jake traveled back to Richmond carrying his personal firearm.
I don't think the USA, at least after the first war was interested in enforcing a policy dictating every single firearm in the CSA down to shotguns and Civil War-era antiques hoisted over family fireplaces.
I seem to recall there was a passing mention in the novels to the US Secretary of the Interior having a role in setting US occupation policy.
They used the Interior Secretary - Harry Hopkins - to negotiate a ceasefire with the Mormons. Don't know why they used him and not someone from the War Department or the White House, other than recognition that Hopkins was historically used as the president's envoy.
Maybe Carl Vinson as Featherston's Secretary of the Navy? OTL he was a staunch segregationist, so he should fit in pretty well with the Freedom Party. And whoever the Confederate Secretary of the Navy is will most likely be sentenced to death. Not so much for what the miniscule Confederate Navy itself did, but for the Confederate Marine Corps' involvement in the occupation of Haiti.
I guess. Seems a waste to use his talent at something like the Confederate Navy, but he'd probably be equally wasted as Speaker or House Whip in the Freedom-controlled Congress.
It's also pretty unlikely that the Socialists would let Mahon be charged with a crime for anything he advocated from the floor of the Congress. (Anyone who voted for the Richmond Agreement is not going to want to see that particular precedent established.)
If the United States wanted a Confederate dead, they'd charge him with crimes against humanity and go from there. No need to go into precarious precedent-setting in Congress.
As for some other possible Richmond 10 defendants:
Lieutenant General Hank Coomer, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Coomer is explicitly mentioned to be a long time Freedom Party man, so it is pretty likely forces under his command would have committed some major atrocities.
Against...who?
There's also the Confederate general identified only as "Willard" who took over the Confederate General Staff after Forrest. He would presumably be the Keitel/Jodl equivalent at the proceedings.
The Keitel/Jodl equivalent? Keitel and Jodl were convicted and hanged because of various illegal orders they had put their signatures to. Nobody's gonna waste their time trying a man whose only mention in history books was he broke a leg falling off an airplane.
So, going by your article Walker as SecOfState will be in charge of maintaining the wartime alliance with its allies, the most important being the UK. I'll have to look a bit more to find what kind of charges he could be given.
I think he handled diplomacy the way Cordell Hull handled diplomacy for Franklin Roosevelt: he did the boring shit the boss couldn't be bothered to do, like dealing with Mexico. A lot of times Jake did his own stuff, like his personally meeting with Al Smith, or sending personal messages to Churchill about riling up Canada, or else had a personal troubleshooter like Anne Colleton ala Jake's Harry Hopkins do it for him because he didn't trust Whig diplomats, Herbert Walker probably being one of them.
I was thinking (probably because Speer was mentioned), do you think Featherston would have any interest in a Welthauptstadt Germania type of project, ie. rebuilding the capital city with grandiose governmental buildings?
No, that's totally un-Snake.
