Henderson V. FitzBelmont

Henry V. FitzBelmont is a physicist at Washington University in Lexington, Virginia. In 1941 he proposed a project to research and build an atomic bomb to Confederate President Jake Featherston. Featherston refused to support the substantial resource allocations FitzBelmont requested because the physicist could not guarantee the success of the project. A year later, however, Clarence Potter found intelligence that the United States was working on its own atomic bomb, and Featherston recalled FitzBelmont to Richmond and authorized him to begin his project.

FitzBelmont is a Confederate patriot and supports the war the against the United States. However, privately he is bitterly opposed to the Freedom Party, a sentiment he confided in Potter.