Mr. Featherston (first name unknown) (dead before 1914) was a slave overseer at a Confederate plantation, probably in Virginia, and father of the future dictatorial President Jake Featherston. He was a Baptist. President James Longstreet's decision to order the manumission of the Confederacy's slave population cost Featherston his job, which the ex-overseer deeply resented for the rest of his life. His married life seems to have been unhappy and marred by violent scenes.