This article lists the various minor fictional characters who appear in the American Empire trilogy, a sub-series of the Southern Victory series. These characters are identified, but play at best a peripheral role in the series. Most were simply mentioned or had a very brief, unimportant role that did not impact the plot, and never appeared again.

Albert BauerEdit

(Blood and Iron and The Center Cannot Hold)

Albert Bauer was a particularly radical member of the Socialist Party organization in Toledo, Ohio.^[1] He worked with Chester Martin on Upton Sinclair's presidential campaign in 1920.^[2] Martin had the impression that Bauer was a thoroughly practical man who might appreciate a bar of shaving soap as a Christmas gift more than anything else.^[3] He expressed some skepticism of the increased speculation in the stock market in the early 1920s.^[4]

Frank BestEdit

(B&I)

Frank Best was foreman in a galoshes factory in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1910s and 1920s.^[5] He was known for sexually harassing his female employees, including Sylvia Enos.^[6]

Caleb BriggsEdit

(B&I)

Caleb Briggs was a dentist who practiced in Birmingham, Alabama. He served in the Confederate Army during the Great War and was badly injured in a poison gas attack. In the 1920s, he was Chairman of the Birmingham Freedom Party.^[7]

Briggs led a group of Freedom Party men (Jefferson Pinkard among them) to protest a speech by President Wade Hampton V, and witnessed the president's assassination by Grady Calkins. Upon a threat from the Alabama militia that they would be massacred, Briggs ordered the Freedom men to retreat.^[8] He did his best to keep the Freedom Party moving forward in the bleak period after the assassination.^[9]

Abraham CantorowiczEdit

(TCCH)

Abraham Cantorowicz was a Democratic politician who ran against incumbent Socialist Congresswoman Flora Blackford in New York City's Lower East Side in 1926. While not a token candidate, Cantorowicz had little hope of defeating the massively popular Blackford in her home district, and conceded after falling 3000 votes out of 16,000 behind Blackford on Election Night. During his concession call to Blackford's headquarters, he promised that one day Democratic efforts to win the district would bear fruit. He also questioned Flora on whether she planned to run for re-election if her husband, Vice President Hosea Blackford, became his party's Presidential candidate in 1928.^[10]

May CavendishEdit

(B&I)

May Cavendish was a woman from Boston, Massachusetts.^[11] She was a coworker of Sylvia Enos in a galoshes factory in the 1910s and 20s.^[12] She introduced Sylvia to cigarettes.^[13]

Chris ClogstonEdit

(TVO)

Chris Clogston^[14] was a quilt vendor in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a ninth-generation Irish-American. She did some work for Sylvia Enos.^[15]

Ted CulliganEdit

(B&I;TCCH)

Ted Culligan was a son of a family of farmers living outside of Rosefeld, Manitoba, Canada.^[16] He was engaged to Julia McGregor in the early 1920s,^[17] until her terrorist father Arthur was killed trying to assassinate US General George Custer. Then he broke off the engagement.^[18]

Virgil DonaldsonEdit

(TCCH)

Virgil Donaldson was a colonel in the United States Army and a member of the General Staff during the Sinclair Administration. In the late 1920s, he listened to a passionate plea from Colonel Irving Morrell for action against the Confederate States after the CS sent troops into Mexico. Donaldson attempted to dissaude Morrell from filing a report on the matter, citing the lack of political will on the Administration's part to act.

Donaldson's words proved prophetic. Not only did the U.S. refuse to chastise the C.S., the government exiled the troublesome Morrell to British Columbia.^[19]

Sheldon FleischmannEdit

(TCCH)

Sheldon Fleischmann was Max Fleischmann's son. He took over his father's butcher's shop after Max died. Like Max, Sheldon was a Democrat. But he continued his father's tradition of sending cold cuts up to Socialist Party headquarters on Election Day night.^[20]

Joe HabichtEdit

(TCCH; RE)

Joe "Ed"^[21] Habicht was the first husband of Rita Martin. He was killed during the Great War on the Roanoke Front.^[22] His wife remarried in the 1920s. When she learned her second husband Chester, also a veteran of the Roanoke Front, intended to re-inlist when the Second Great War began, she remembered her first husband.^[23]

Habicht and Rita never had children.

Virgil JoynerEdit

(TCCH-TVO)

Virgil Joyner was a member of the Freedom Party; he was one of the first people to join, registering around the same time as Jake Featherston and Ferdinand Koenig.^[24] As he was a staunch Freedom man, he was given the privilege and the duty of being Featherston's personal driver; he also had the privilege enjoyed by few others to address the Freedom Party ruler as the "Sarge."^[25]

While driving in a presidential motorcade through the streets of Richmond in December 1939, Joyner was killed by disgruntled Freedom Party Stalwarts, who were all part of Willy Knight's coup attempt.^[26]

Ainsworth LayneEdit

(B&I)

Ainsworth Layne was the Radical Liberal candidate for President of the Confederate States in 1921.^[27] While he was defeated by Whig candidate Wade Hampton V, the final polling suggested that his lost was at least in part because of the candidacy of the Freedom Party's Jake Featherston^[28]

Layne was earnest in his desire to reconcile with both the United States and with the colored residents of the C.S., unpopular positions immediately after the Great War.^[29] During the campaign, Featherston made much of the fact that Layne was Harvard-educated, and during one speech, accused Layne of wanting to take the C.S. back into the United States.^[30]

Like the Whigs, Layne and the Radical Liberals were subject to violence by the Freedom Party. During a speech in Charleston, South Carolina, Layne's supporters were set upon by Freedom Party Stalwarts led by Roger Kimball.^[31] Shots were fired, and Kimball had to prevent a Stalwart from shooting Layne.^[32]

Samuel LongstreetEdit

(TCCH)

Samuel Longstreet was a Whig Senator from Virginia. The grandson of former general and president James Longstreet, Samuel himself was the Whig nominee for the presidency in 1933. He and his running-mate Hugo Black were defeated by the Freedom Party's Jake Featherston, making Longstreet the first and only Whig candidate to lose a Presidential election in Confederate history.^[33]

Harvey O'DoullEdit

(B&I)

Harvey O'Doull was the father of Leonard O'Doull. In 1921, he and his wife Rose travelled to Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec from his home in the United States to celebrate the birth of his grandson, Lucien O'Doull. During his visit to Quebec he was a houseguest of his son's in-laws, Lucien and Marie Galtier.^[34]

Rose O'DoullEdit

(B&I)

Rose O'Doull (d. c 1940) was the mother of Leonard O'Doull. In 1921, she travelled to Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec from her home in the United States to celebrate the birth of her grandson, Lucien O'Doull. During her visit to Quebec she was a house guest of her son's in-laws, Lucien and Marie Galtier.^[35]

By 1941, Rose O'Doull had passed away.

John OglethorpeEdit

(B&I-TCCH)

John Oglethorpe (b. ca 1860) owned and operated a dinner in Augusta, Georgia, for many years. He worked as the cook while employing several blacks as waiters.

Shortly after the Great War, Oglethorpe hired Scipio (who was using the name "Xerxes") as a waiter after Oglethorpe's long-time employee, Aurelius, confirmed he knew the job by observing him during a trial period. Unfortunately, Oglethorpe had to let Scipio go in 1919 after rising unemployment had an adverse effect on his business, and Oglethorpe could no longer afford two waiters.^[36]

In 1933, a desperate Scipio sought out Oglethorpe (whom Scipio still held in high regard) for possible employment. Unfortunately, Oglethorpe had nothing.^[37]

Oglethorpe dispised the Freedom Party, referring to them as "yahoos".^[38]

At the outset of the Second Great War, Oglethorpe's poor health caused him to shut down his business.^[39]

Cicero PittmanEdit

(TVO-RE)

Cicero Pittman became Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1935 following the death of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.^[40] He was appointed by President Herbert Hoover and, like Holmes, was a conservative Democrat. He administered the Oath of Office to President Al Smith in 1937^[41] and 1941 and to VP Charles W. La Follette on Smith's death in 1942.^[42]

Literary CommentEdit

While Cassius Madison takes note of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court administering the oath of office to Thomas Dewey in 1945, the Chief Justice is not named.

Nephi PrattEdit

(TVO)

Nephi Pratt represented Utah in the United States House of Representatives during the brief period between the end of martial law in that state following its resistance movement in the Great War and the beginning of the 1941 rebellion. He was once ejected from the floor of the House of Representatives by Speaker Clarence Cannon for arguing with Congressman Barry Goldwater of New Mexico out of order. Pratt left the room with dignity. Goldwater, in contratst, scuffled with the men who removed him, even landing a good blow on one.

Pratt was the grandson of Orson Pratt, one of six Mormon leaders executed during the Second Mexican War, a fact he reminded the House of prior to his ejection.^[43]

Oliver RolandEdit

(B&I)

Oliver Roland was the first captain of the USS Remembrance. In 1920, he hosted a the Lord Mayor of Dublin and an Irish Admiral aboard the Remembrance to officially commemorate the independence of the Republic of Ireland. Almost immediately after, Roland led the ship against a British-backed uprising in Ulster.

Roland was a swarthy man of French descent.^[44]

Carlos RuizEdit

(TCCH-RE)

Carlos Ruiz was a farmer from Baroyeca, Sonora. He was a lifelong friend of Hipolito Rodriguez.^[45] In 1943, his son was wounded while serving in the Confederate States Army during the Second Great War.^[46]

Captain SteinEdit

(TVO-RE)

Captain Stein (d. 1941) commanded the USS Remembrance from 1928 when she was put back into service, through the Pacific War^[47] until her sinking off Midway by the Japanese during the Second Great War.^[48] An officer of the old school, Stein deliberately went down with his ship.^[49]

Eyechart SzczerbiakowiczEdit

(TVO-RE)

"Eyechart" Szczerbiakowicz (d. 1941) was a sailor in damage control on the Remembrance. He was missing and presumed drowned when the ship was sunk by the Japanese.^[50]

He received his nickname because his surname looked like something you would find at an optometrist’s and was considered unpronounceable.^[51]

Sarah WyckoffEdit

(B&I)

Sarah Wyckoff was a widow from Boston, Massachusetts. She was a co-worker of Sylvia Enos in a galoshes factory in the 1910s and 20s.^[52] She shared Sylvia's contempt for Frank Best. She admitted at one point to wishing she could put a certain part of Best's anatomy in a size-two shoe-mold.^[53]

ReferencesEdit

v · d · e Southern Victory Books How Few Remain The Great War (American Front • Walk in Hell • Breakthroughs) American Empire (Blood and Iron • The Center Cannot Hold • The Victorious Opposition) Settling Accounts (Return Engagement • Drive to the East • The Grapple • In at the Death) 1 of 11 Add photo POV Characters Reggie Bartlett • Flora Blackford • Sam Carsten • Samuel Clemens • Anne Colleton • Tom Colleton • George Custer • Frederick Douglass • Jerry Dover • Abner Dowling • Cincinnatus Driver • George Enos • George Enos, Jr. • Sylvia Enos • Jake Featherston • Lucien Galtier • Armstrong Grimes • Thomas Jackson • Roger Kimball • Abraham Lincoln • Cassius Madison • Paul Mantarakis • Chester Martin • Arthur McGregor • Gordon McSweeney • Irving Morrell • Jonathan Moss • Leonard O'Doull • Jefferson Pinkard • Mary McGregor Pomeroy • Michael Pound • Clarence Potter • Stephen Ramsay • Hipolito Rodriguez • Jorge Rodriguez • Theodore Roosevelt • Scipio • Alfred von Schlieffen • Nellie Semphroch • Jeb Stuart Countries United States • Confederate States • Canada • Mexico • Republic of Quebec • Britain • France • Russia • Germany • Austria-Hungary • Ottoman Empire • Japan Events War of Secession • Second Mexican War • Great War • Pacific War • Second Great War Politicial Parties Democratic Party • Socialist Party • Republican Party • Whig Party • Radical Liberal Party • Freedom Party