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 The Confederate Labor Brigade in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1941 |
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 Confederation of American Socialist States
|  Confederate States
|  Mexico
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 Bill Blizzard† Charles Arthur Floyd Clifford Durr Oliver Law Oscar K. Allen† Earl Long Fulgencio Batista
| John Nance Garner Carter Glass George S. Patton† Chester W. Nimitz Ira C. Eaker Walton Walker Hiram Westley Evens†
| Lazaro Cardenas
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The Confederate Civil War, also known as the War of Red and Gray, was a communist uprising in the Confederate States which began after the assassination of President Huey Long, as many factions vied to determine the Confederacy’s political future. The two largest combatant groups were the Worker’s Army, fighting to form a socialist republic led originally by Bill Blizzard, and the Government forces led by newly appointed President John Garner. In addition, rival militant socialists, fascists, and non-ideological armies also fought, but against both the Worker’s Army and the Confederate government. The Worker’s Army would eventually merge with fellow independent factions including the Free State of Cuba under Fulgencio Batista, Independent Louisiana under Earl Long, Brotherhood of Freedom under Oliver Law, and many other similar minded groups that eventually formed the Confederation of American Socialist States. The C.A.S.S. would be later joined by communist volunteer brigades from the U.S.S.R., Europe, Mexico, Canada, and the United States in hopes of establish the new communist regime as the recognized government in Richmond.
A picture of Louisianian militiamen
The war would last a total of eight years with the CASS being recognized as the victors after the capture of Richmond in 1943. Lesser clashes between Confederation and loyalists to the government in exile continued across the country for two more years, with the C.A.S.S. continuing minor skirmishes with the remnants of CSA loyalist in the West well into 1948. There were an estimated 2.4 million to 3.2 million casualties during the war, mostly civilians, making the Confederate Civil War being described as the one of the greatest national catastrophes that the Americas have ever seen.
Background[]
Following the Confederacy's loss in the Anglo-American War, in which the Confederate government under Robert Latham Owen agreed to peace in which all territories gained in the war would be returned to the United States. The unpopular treaty would anger the majority of the nation's population and lead to mass discontent in the nation. Following this the Confederacy entered what is commonly know as the Rebel Rabbling Years, in which along with dissatisfaction with the establishment and the elite lead to the rise in membership for the Confederate Communist Party.
Despite the growth in the Communist Party's membership, the election of 1927 was won by Readjuster B. Carroll Reece. President Reece's early attempts to unite the nation were fumbled when the stock market crash on October 29, 1929 sent the already divided people into a worst state. As many Confederates across the nation lost their jobs and homes. The communist movement began taking advantage of the people's increasing anger.
To concerned with the rise in the Communist membership, which generally had support among African Americans in the South. Dentist Hiram Wesley Evans would form the White nationalist militant organization known as the Knights of the Burning Cross. The KBC would begin attacking Communist rallies across the deep south, along with Black, Catholic, Jewish, and Hispanic neighborhoods and communities.
In June 1933, Louisiana's governor Huey Long won the Dixiecrat nomination for the presidency. Long made a platform known as Share Our Wealth, which was designed to give benefits to the poor in the South. He would win in a landslide victory in the election of 1933 against the Readjusters' Henry D. Hatfield, a representative of Virginia.
Long would begin pushing his liberal policies through the Confederate States Congress as he attempted to lead Dixie out of the Depression. Though many of the communist leadership felt he was not a true friend of the working man, most of their rank and file supported him. Long kept his promises, but made many enemies in the process on both sides of the aisle. These enemies would eventually take action as President Long was assassinated on September 10, 1935. Though the assassin was publicly known as Carl Weiss, the people felt that he was working for conservative members of the Dixiecrats.
The beginning of the conflict[]
The nation would enter a period of mourning, but that sadness soon changed to anger as the people began to blame the new administration under President Garner for the death of the “Kingfish”. On September 28, 1935, riots took place across the country as the Confederate Communist Party took up the demand for revenge. The CS was in crisis as labor leader Bill Blizzard of Virginia organized his supporters into the freshly minted Worker's Army. This Militia would begin striking government facilities and personnel across the Appalachian Mountains.
Blizzard's militia occupying a town in the Western part of Virginia during the early days of the Civil War
As local law enforcement was unable to stop the rebel forces, President Garner ordered the Confederate border patrols and the Virginian, North Carolina, and Tennessee National Guards under the command of Marine General Randolph C. Berkeley to put down Blizzard and his guerilla forces. As the CSA began to focus on Blizzard other minor groups would rise up across the nations including the Everglade revolt in Florida, the citizen revolt of Athens and Etowah, Tennessee which would form the short lived Republic of Athens. The Black Worker groups lead by Claude Lightfoot in Lake Village, Arkansas and Oliver Law's South Texas Brigade.
In Cuba, a group of sergeants began meeting at the Columbia barracks in Havana to form the Columbia Military Union. Their ambition was to decide what the Cuban Militia's stance would be in the case the rebellion would take place in the state, quickly expanded to a plan to create an independent state of Cuba.. This group, later called the Junta of the Eight (despite uncertainty about numbers) included Fulgencio Batista and other members of his ABC cell, as well as Pablo Rodríguez, whom some perceived to be the group's leader.
On October 30th, the CMU would remove all senior officers in the Cuban State Militia, before storming the state's capital building and arresting many of its legislation. Batista would decline over the radio that the Cuban National Guard had not recognized the authority of Richmond and that Cuba was now an independent nation. The CMU would have must of the support of the Cuban citizens and the military rank and file. On November 1st, CMU members would enter the governor's palace and remove Governor Céspedes, replacing him with acting president Ramón Grau.
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