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4 unusual facts about The Guns of the South


Albert G. Brown

In the 1994 alternative history/science fiction novel The Guns of the South, Brown serves as the running mate to Robert E. Lee in the 1867 Confederate Presidential Election opposing Nathan Bedford Forrest and Louis Wigfall, and is elected vice president, but is killed during an assassination attempt against Lee on his inauguration day.

The Guns of the South

The men call their organization "America Will Break" (or "AWB"), and offer to supply the Confederate army with these rifles, which they refer to as AK-47s.

At Lee's inauguration, AWB men attempt to assassinate him using Uzis, resulting in the death of Lee's wife, Mary; his vice president, Albert Gallatin Brown, various dignitaries and generals, and many civilians.

The story deals with a group of time-travelling Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members who supply Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia with AK-47s and small amounts of other supplies (including nitroglycerine tablets for treating Lee's heart condition), leading to a Southern victory in the war.



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