The year is 1859, the place NYC. My character was seduced and abandoned by her wealthy suitor and thrown out of the house when her father realized the marriage he'd been counting on wasn't going to happen. (The suitor was of higher social standing, so the girl's family weren't able to insist the wedding take place.) And of course she's found ( Read more... )

time/place: 1860's USA ( Read more... )

Setting: Unspecified Location, modern United States ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story set in a slightly steampunked American Civil War. Most of the technological deviations have not yet happened, and history is pretty much the same until 1862. The character, who has just joined the Union Army, is listing derogatory slang terms for Yankee. I have scoured the internet and I keep coming up with the same three ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

Setting is today, one character is a history buff who knows a lot about the American Civil War era, the other character is a vampire who actually lived through it. The scene involves them kind of geeking out over either a) a small, nitpicky bit of civil war trivia they would be watching in some kind of TV special, or b) pointing out some historical ( Read more... )

I think this is a toughie.  The Eight Texas Rangers have just arrived at Camp Pratt on Spanish Lake in Louisiana from a week's journeying (days of tramping across  Louisiana mud and creeks).  They are covered in mud and soon will board a steamboat for further travel to New Orleans.  There are approximately five companies of 117 men each who haven't ( Read more... )

I'm not really sure how to google for this, so any pointers would be helpful ( Read more... )

I've done various searches (variations on the theme of "American civil war" plus "burial", "mass grave", "casualties" "clothes" and so on ( Read more... )

Two queries, both concerning the Confederate States of America, in 1863-1864 ( Read more... )