MTF Crossdressing during Civil War?
I've been on Google for hours now searching for everything within the realms of male crossdressing, victorian era and civil war as well as everything in between it seems and I'm still not getting a very good idea of what I'm looking for
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Also, neither side conscripted 16 year olds; the Union's drafted men aged 20 to 45, and the Confederacy drafted men from 18 to 35. For someone to start living as a woman to avoid the draft, they'd have to assume that the war was going to last for a good deal longer than just about anybody thought it would last.
Even if you have someone like that, there are a number of simpler ways to avoid the Civil War draft. In the Union, you could pay $300, and not be subject to the draft, and in both the Union and the Confederacy, you could pay someone else to fight in your place, which would generally cost less than $300. Or you could move West, where the government wasn't as strong--there were a lot of people who avoided the War by moving to California, Oregon, and so on, for the duration. This was possible for Southerners as well, as the Union blockade didn't interfere with passage by land into Mexico, and from there into California.
I realize that isn't where your focus is, but I can't really get past my problems with the scenario.
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The MC's father works for a man with ties to the military - who was wealthy enough to get his sons out of it, but sent both of them to war regardless - so there was some pressure. And they lived in Savannah at the start of the Civil War so there was also that added pressure.
The background was that his son had run off to enlist, despite being too young (because, yes, that did happen fairly frequently), and for several months he kept his son sequestered in their home. And later re-introduced his "niece" who had come to live with him after her father went to serve the army. The truth in that is that the MC's father does have a brother who was a prominent military man, but his daughter actually went to stay with distant relatives in the North. It was a tricky story, but he didn't expect to have to follow it for long. Then, of course, his son decided he wasn't going to shift back to being male after the war was over either way.
...but that's a whole 'nother can of worms.
It's an AU storyline in a long-established RPG, so I don't have that much of an issue with being a little extra flexible with details.
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