Fictional Characters in The Southern Victory Series - Confederate States - Madison, Cassius

Madison, Cassius

(AE:CCH-SA:DE; Viewpoint character SA:G-SA:ID)

Named for the late huntsman at the Marshlands Plantation, Cassius is the son of Scipio and Bathsheba. As he grew up in Augusta's Terry district, he developed a sense to strike back at the white "ofays" who oppressed him and his family.

In early 1943, Cassius told his father that he would not be attending church one Sunday, which meant that he escaped a cleanout of the Terry which took his father, his mother, and his sister Antoinette. For a time after leaving the Terry, Cassius looked for whatever work he could find, eventually joining a resistance group led by Gracchus.

After US forces occupied the part of Georgia he was operating in, Cassius became an auxiliary for the US Army in Madison, Georgia. While serving in this capacity in 1944, he came across Jake Featherston and other top Freedom officials walking down a road from Athens after their plane was shot down. Cassius shot Featherston several times, killing the President of the Confederate States, and taking the rest of the group prisoner. He became famous, given a cash reward and became a U.S. citizen, taking the last name of Madison after the town where he shot and killed Featherston. He attends the inauguration of Tom Dewey in February 1945 as a special guest.