Cincinnatus

Cincinnatus Driver was born in Covington, Confederate Kentucky. Cincinnatus worked as a delivery driver before the Great War, which in itself was suspicious to many whites, who did not want black men to drive. When Covington was overrun by U.S. forces, Cincinnatus found himself working for Lieutenant Straubing as a military driver, but also being a pawn in the intelligence game between Confederate, black Marxist and U.S. forces in Kentucky.

Following the Great War, Cincinnatus took the surname "Driver" (blacks in the Confederacy were not allowed surnames) and moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where he set up business as a hauler. He was briefly lured back to Kentucky by Luther Bliss and arrested by the Kentucky State Police head, but freed due to the legal efforts of attorney Clarence Darrow.

Driver returned to Kentucky in late 1940 to see to a family crisis, but was trapped behind the international border when the Confederates reoccupied the state. (He was hit by a car and partially crippled). He and his father, Seneca Driver, were exchanged in 1942 and he returned to Des Moines, where he volunteered as a civilian auxiliary driver for the U.S. Army, this time being allowed to carry a weapon. He was part of the spearthrust into Kentucky in 1943 and accompanied General Irving Morrell's army through Kentucky, Tennessee, and into Georgia.