Name:

Age:

Sex: (don’t write please)

Job in respective group (i.e., Union corporal, civilian nurse):

Weight:

Height:

Hair color:

Eye color:

Physical description:

Background and basic personality:

Weapon(s):

Name: Robert Edward Lee

Age: 58

Sex: Male

Job in respective group: Commander of Army of Northern Virginia

Wight: History don’t tell

Height: Tall

Hair color: Gray

Eye color: Blue

Physical description: Old and has a heart defect that will kill him after the war. But his countless victories show his mind is far frail.

Background: Made a name for himself in the Mexican war, superintendent of West Point. Was thought of so highly he was offered a chance to lead the union army at the outbreak of the war but sided with his native state of Virginia after much inner debate.

Weapon(s): Sword

Name: Antinanco(means "Eagle of the Sun") "Mac" MacDermott (he sometimes goes by Nanco which means "Eagle")

Age: 20

Sex: M

Job in respective group: Tracker, sniper, spie(when he has to be)

Weight: 210

Height: 6'3"

Hair color: Black

Eye color: Blue

Physical description: Built like your typical Indian (hehe), he stands tall and proud naturally and has a dark tan. He tends to stick out in a crowd and, unlike the common ideas of Indians, he's not out for someone's scalp all the time, though most people still think that, despite what he tells them. He has an Indian horse named Quidel(means burning torch) who only likes him and only understands Indian words. Mac is a naturally quiet sort, but he isn't hesitant to speak up when he needs to. He's made quite a name for himself among his cavalry unit because he's such a good scout.

He speaks fluent English (with scarcely an accent), fluent Mapuchan(the language of his mother and the first language he knew) and fluent Spanish.

Background: Mac was born in South America to an Indian mother and his Scottish father. After his mother died, his father, Nathan MacDermott, brought his only son back to the States and when Mac was 17 he and his father joined the confederate army. Mac's father died within a year and now Mac is all on his own, though still fighting for the South.....he just transfered to this particular unit.

Weapon(s): Bow and arrows, multiple knives, his father's two pistols, his Whitworth sharpshooting rifle, oh and a tomahawk he "borrowed" from an Apache (he can use a sword, but he doesn't own one...)

No Wenchester! It was invented till 1873! I suggest 1853 patren Enfeild rifle as it was the comon musket used my CSA.

Oops! my bad! sorry! I'll change that, sorry.....

Hey no prob. I'll make a topic for info on the war. I'm guessing your char is based on Ely Parker?

okay, cool. who's that? My character is the main character in the 4th book on a series I'm writing.

Read this and you'll find out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Parker :D

Name: Miles Cantwell

Age: 28

Sex: Male

Job in respective group: Doctor

Weight: Average i guess...

Height: for a guy he's short, about 5"5'

Hair color: Blonde

Eye color: Hazel

Physical description: He's short, has a scar on his eyebrow which cause hairs to stop growing there. He always has this sense of calm around him, even when things start to get tough.

Background: Was an apprentice to the town's doctor in texas. He never went out of his way to go shot a gun for he was always a lousy shot, but once the war started he figured that he could help the cause in another way.

Weapons: He's a doctor, he can get very creative on demand. He has everything from the surgon tools to the key to the whiskey cabinet.

Cool charicter. And Scotty put him in the right camp. Things 'll be sorta slow till we get Yankee's; seeing how i'm the onily Yankee here guess I couuld make a cuple. :D Oh won't be on until 5ish (Centeral Time) tonight, so I'll see you round then. I'll be gone this weekend as well cuz I got a reenactment.

Name: Corporal Jack Cross

Age: 26

Sex: M

Job in respective group: NCO

Wight: 119

Height: short

Hair color: blond

Eye color: blue

Physical description: Short man with blond hair and blues. Isn’t overly handsome but not ugly.

Background: Joined the Confederate Army in ’61, before ft. Sumter.

Weapon(s): 1853 Enfield rifle and bowie knife

Name: Katherine Brighelm (nee Caine)

Age: 19

Sex: F

Job in respective group: Farmer's Daughter,

Weight: 120

Height: 5'6

Hair color: brown

Eye color: blue

Physical description: Average-size girl with long brown hair and blue eyes.

Background: Born & raised in Virginia, Kath has worked on her farm all her life. Her brother James joined the Union army, was killed in battle. Her 13-year-old sister Lily has been mute ever since, and five-year-old Maggie never really knew James and therefore continues to have a happy outlook on life. She is now married to Patrick Brighelm (and pregnant with his kid. Mwahaha character suffering.)

Weapon(s): Scythe

(Not bad at all!)

Name: Robert John Stewart

Age: 22

Sex: M

Job in respective group: Just your typical cavalry guy

Weight: 210

Height: 6'

Hair color: Blond

Eye color: Blue

Physical description: Though Rob is rather tall, he doesn't seem at all imposing and is often taken for someone younger. He's broad-shouldered and rather muscular and many girls would think he's handsome, though he doesn't think so. He has bright blue eyes and medium length blond hair.

Background: Rob was born in Tennessee, he went to life and work with his Uncle in New York and when the war started, said Uncle forced him to join with the Union side. He didn't want to, but he also didn't really want to be killed or locked away for life, so he's waiting for the right opportunity to run to the 'right side', aka the Confederates.

Weapon(s): Pistol and rifle and knife

He use this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_repeating_rifle#History

Name: Patrick Brighelm

Age: 27

Sex: Male

Job in respective group: Captain of Company I, Boston Irish Battalion

Wight: 140

Height:6’3

Hair color: glossy black

Eye color: Green

Physical description: Is a handsome man with scars under his facial hair and chest.

Background: Left Ireland at the age of 15 using money stolen from his uncle. Joined the army and fought in the Mexican and Indian Wars. After his wife died in childbirth he deiced to fight for the Union.

Weapon(s): Springfield rifle and Colt

Name: Felix Reinhardt “Hart”

Age: 24

Sex: male

Job in respective group: Infantry, 2nd Wisconsin Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac, more commonly known as The Iron Brigade.

Weight: 147lbs

Height: 6”

Hair color: dark brown, has a mustache

Eye color: blue-green

Physical description: A bit on the slim side, lean but strong. Was wounded in the shoulder at Antietam, and while fortunate enough to actually keep his arm, he was badly scarred and suffers from occasional stiffness.

Background: His parents emigrated from Germany to Wisconsin in 1838. Felix was born two years later in Milwaukee, the second eldest of five children. His father worked on the Steamers that traversed the Great Lakes waterway and thereby met his violent and watery end in 1851. That same year Felix began working on the docks and later the steamers, first as a deckhand and then a wheelman—supporting his family. He had no real interest in it however, being of a scholarly disposition. He enlisted in April 1861, almost immediately following Lincoln’s call to arms. His experience aboard-ship prepared him for the life of a soldier and his keen eyes (important for a wheelman) make him an excellent shot. He’s been with the brigade ever since, through every major conflict of the war and has become an experienced, battle-hardened soldier.

Weapon(s): .5 8 caliber Springfield musket, .44 caliber Colt Revolver Model 1860

Name: Kerstin Reinhardt

Age: 19

Sex: female

Job in respective group: Vivandiere/Daughter of the Regiment (2nd Wisconsin)

Weight: 120lbs

Height: 5’4

Hair color: dark brown, curly

Eye color: blue-green

Physical description: slim, and rather petite, but what she lacks in size she makes up for in tenacity and her striking looks.

Background: Felix’s younger sister. At first Colonel Coon was doubtful of the advisability of allowing such a girl to “tag along after his troops”, and when he resigned, Colonel O’Connor was even less amiable. But when Kerstin finally got to show her true metal she proved invaluable, not only as a nurse, but for morale—the men simply wouldn’t march without her, and so she was finally adopted into the regiment.

Weapon(s): Two Colt Revolvers and a small knife.

For more info on Vivandieres: http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/articles/0005/vivandieres.cfm

Name: Guy Oaks

Age: 35

Sex: (male)

Job in respective group: Horse breeder-trainer-provisions supply

Weight: massive 230 solid muscle

Height: 6'3"

Hair color: black(but close shaven)

Eye color:black

Physical description: muscular, reddish brown, clearly showing his mixed native-african- english heritage, good teeth, proud stature, crooked fingers, so visible horse bite scars, dresses well, sturdy work clothes, good leather boots

Background: The "CEO" of Orchard Mountain

Weapon(s): several old black powder muzzle loaders, a colt navy .44, a sharp as shit knife-saw on a long pole (a tree trimming tool)

Now controlled by eyes-of-a-hawk

Name: James Longstreet

Age: 43

Sex: Male

Job in respective group: General, 1st Corps, Army of Tennessee

Weight: 260lbs

Height: 6'3"

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: blue

Physical description: Hefty, with much facial hair.

Background: Born in 1821 in South Carolina, grew up on a cotton farm where he worked hard alongside his father. Resigned as a Major in the US army, joining the Confederacy. (See http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-civil-war/james-longstreet.htm for more info)

Weapon(s): Want a list?

Name: Carolina Louisa "Carrie Lou" Webber

Age: 19

Sex: Female

Job in respective group: Takes care of her mother and sister in town; occasionally sells bread and other foodstuffs to the soldiers. Volunteers as nurse.

Weight: 165

Height: 5'10"

Hair color: Mouse brown

Eye color: Dark hazel

Physical description: Carrie Lou is plain and strong, to be kind. While she is not ugly, she is not pretty, either, and her nose is a bit too long for her face and her cheeks are always pink. She is tall, has curly hair that is barely contained in a net despite her efforts to straighten it, and doesn't care a whit about keeping her figure.

Background: Carrie Lou was born the fifth child and first daughter to Patience and Robert Webber, a wealthy Southern family. Growing up with four brothers and only a younger sister, Carrie Lou learned early to hold her own against the menfolk, which served her well when she grew into a woman and it became clear that she was not a pretty, talented one. She has never held much out hope for a husband, and since the war began has given up the pretenses of embroidering and being graceful and flirtatious.

Now, three years into the war, her four brothers Robert, Jr., John, Thomas, and Stephen, and her father are dead at Shiloh, Mechanicsville, Gettysburg, and Chancellorsville. Her mother and her sister, Virginia, depend on her for supporting them. Their slaves and hired help abandoned them when the Yankees came into the area. Now Carrie Lou gardens, raises chickens under their house, volunteers at the hospital, is a reluctant member of the Benevolent Association, and combs lint from scraps of cloth to make bandages. She is jaded and tired and wishes that the CSA would just give it all up.

But she suffers silently under the weight of carrying herself and sister and mother through life, alone, with no hope for love that doesn't care if she worked her fingers to the bone or put food on the table every night, no hopes of caring for the children she so desperately wants to have. She fears living alone, both physically and emotionally, for the rest of her life.

Carrie Lou also has a quick temper, and has struggled with it her whole life. Sometimes she will lose it for a moment and snap at a body, but always apologizes. She gets along best with people who will obey her and allow her to do her own thing. Her pride is a rather large issue, and has driven a wedge more than once between her and loved ones.

She has a strange propensity for taking in strays from the street. Also, she sings like an angel and can play the pianoforte admirably, but no one has heard her do either since before the war.

Weapon(s): The only weapons her menfolk left for her defense is a rusted old Belgian Short rifle and an .44 cal. Colt revolver from 1848.

((Wow, she sounds good. Maybe she can help poor injured Mac, since he seems to be ignored by everyone else. XD))

LOL, check out the post I just put up in the Town thread! :P

I did. and I just posted. Welcome, by the way!

Thanks! It's nice to know I'm not the only Civil War buff on the face of the planet. :)

Heh, I'm not a buff(though I'd like to think I am), that's Lee's department. XD

Amen to that. XD

(Sorry, I'll leave now... just had to add that...)

*Bows* I like to thank my grandpas , my dad, Wyatt's Battery. and my lame social skills.

Yes...lack of social skills is valuable skill when one is a historian... *nods knowingly*

OK, just popping in one more time...

Hooray for antisocialism!

Hip-hip...

HOORAY! (*waves period-correct hand-sewn handkerchief*)

Tehe. Yeah, just look at Shelby Foote! Hooray!

I love Shelby Foote! Yay for historian actually making money off his books!

Becoming a shut-in is better than going outside where the world has no idea what you're talking about. *thumbs up*

Yeah. That guy could really tell a story. (See youtube vid in info) I hope I can be half as good as he was.

I convinced my two little cousins to wear my Confederate and Union forage caps to our 4th of July parade...I got some very strange looks. Very strange, indeed...(especially since the one with the Yankee kepi wanted to sit in the shade and so the one with the Reb cap was out standing in the street...)

I walked into a Quicktrip in millwake in my uniform and it was full of black guys. Needless to say that was real fast food. :D

LOL! Yeah, my poor cousin got some dirty looks from the Pentecostal Church float that went by.

Mike friend mike got called a murder, some old lady told her granddaughters to "Piss on that red flag over there."

There's a guy in my class that I constantly argue with, since he's really big into military history, and once we were arguing in Bible class about whether doctors in the Civil War used mostly morphine or opium as painkiller (I was for morphine, and he was for opium) and our classmates decided that we're going to get married and name our kid Ulysses, since his last name is Grant...one of the most mortifying moments of my life. Very funny, though! :)

Ahhahaa! Sounds like me and MMOD over Able sometimes..

:D!

So i'm gonna me the mead admin and say no more chating in C&B. MOOWhhha!

*cries and obeys sadly* Yas, massah.

Good Igore.

((*gasps in offended manner* Why, sir, you do me a great dishonor!))

Name: Thrasher "Thrash" Clemens

Age: 12

Sex: Male

Job in respective group: Reb drummer boy

Weight: 100

Height: 4'6"

Hair color: Sandy blonde

Eye color: Light grey

Physical description: Thrash is a small boy, severely deprived of food at the height of a growth spurt. He is a quiet, mournful-looking boy, though he enjoys drumming and fifing for his regiment. He is thin and rather wan, but used to be adorable before the war. Flashes of his boyish cuteness are evident sometimes, and he was used in the past to get food from farms for the soldiers by fluttering his pale lashes at the women.

EDIT: Now, however, Thrasher has taken a place at the Webber house, where he has shot up like a sapling under Carrie Lou Webber's tender care. He has filled out to a healthy weight, and his big grey eyes are no longer sad. His youthful cuteness has returned, despite the fact that he is still small for his age.

Background: His father, Sam Clemens, was a corporal in the regiment and took Thrash with him. But Sam was killed in late 1863, and now Thrash is all alone, though the soldiers look at him as their little brother. He is almost never seen without the red squirrel he found and tamed in '62, Pip, sitting on his shoulder.

EDIT: Due to an unfortunate incident involving the Webbers' cow, Thrasher found himself being tended to by Carrie Lou Webber. A severe but short-lived battle with scarlet fever solidified his place in the old house and Carrie Lou's heart. She gave him a warm bed, three square meals a day, and a mother's love, and in return, he adores her to no end. He now enjoys romping in the yard with Thomas Marino or the numerous animals that call the Webber property home. Carrie Lou has begun teaching him to read and write, and he is immensely proud of his progress.

Weapon(s): None, unless you count his drum and fife.

DIED OF WOUNDS SUSTAINED ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE

Name: Sergeant Edgar "Eddie" or "Pig-Ear" Oke

Age: 18

Sex: Male

Job in respective group: Reb cavalry sergeant

Weight: 160

Height: 6'2"

Hair color: Dark brown

Eye color: Blueish-grey

Physical description: Eddie Oke is a tall, thin young man with a quiet but rather gruff manner and lips that always seem to be smiling at something. A dark mustache over his mouth makes him appear much older than he really is, and his ears are rather pink, gaining him the goodnatured nickname "Pig-Ear" from his fellow soldiers. He enjoys being with people, but won't talk too much and tends to come across grumpy. His legs are long and they carry him rapidly over the ground wherever he goes. He looks silly on a horse, but is in the cavalry anyway.

As a soldier, he is brisk and carries out orders to the letter. He's a good leader, for his commands are given in a frightening bark, but his men know his love of fun and jokes. He was promoted after Shiloh to corporal, and takes his rank as sergeant very seriously. But girls fluster him, which in turn makes him grumpy...he's frightened away many a lonely maid this way.

Background: Eddie is a Tennessee farm boy who joined the Reb army the day his state seceded. He had a sweetheart early in the war, but her interest in him petered out in late '61, and she has since married. Eddie was hurt, and though he has a warm heart it's now hard for him to express his feelings around others. He was promoted to sergeant after Chancellorsville. His horse, a big grey gelding, is named Kane after the town that Eddie is from.

Weapon(s): a .44 cal. Kerr revolver, a model 1859 Sharps carbine, and a cavalry sword his father used in the Mexican War.

Name: Penelope "Penny" Wilson

Age: 15

Sex: Female

Job in respective group: Um... crazy teenager? Nurse...

Weight: 115

Height: 5'2"

Hair color: Blonde

Eye color: Blue

Physical description: Penny is a rather spontaneous girl and prone to mischief at times, with a bright smile that always seems to melt the hearts of anyone who might be mad at her. She's short and on the thin side and shy around strangers, but don't let that fool you into thinking that she's at all weak. She's quite the little firecracker when the situation requires(or sometimes when she just feels like it), and she'll stand up for her family and friends no matter what. She got her mother's blond hair and blue eyes and her father's sense of loyalty.

Background: Penny and her two older brothers, Val and Kyle, were made orphans at a very young age and after her brothers killed the man responsible, they(her bros) were driven out of town. They left her with some friends when she was only 8 and she hasn't seen them since. She has gotten a few letters from them every now and then, mostly from Val, and knows that Kyle is fighting for the south and that Val is overseas studying in Europe. She moved to Virginia at age 13 to stay with one of her deceased mother's old friends and hates the war, hoping it'll be over soon and that Kyle will live through it.

Weapon(s): An old rifle, and she knows how to use different guns.

Name: Kyle Wilson

Age: 19

Sex: Male

Job in respective group: some Cavalry unit, from Mac's old group

Weight: 170

Height: 6'

Hair color: Red

Eye color: Green

Physical description: The first few things someone notices when they see Kyle are his hat, his twin pistols, his flaming red hair and his bright green eyes that seem to see through a person. Kyle wears his old worn hat more often than not and would never sell it for anything, as it belonged to his father and it's one of the few things he owns that remind him of his deceased parents. His pearl-handled pistols, also his father's, are never not on his person and they also add to his 'bad guy' image.

Kyle, ever the typical cowboy, wears long-sleeved plaid or plain blue shirts(he hates wearing red) and normal working jeans. He prefers mocassins to boots when out in the wilderness, though he wears boots almost everywhere else. He has a leather jacket that has seen better days, but he's loathe to part with it.

He always seems to have a bit of growth on his chin, even though he swears that he shaves every morning. His hair seems to always be getting in his eyes, especially when it's wet, but he doesn't want to get it cut.

Personality: A definite "go getter", Kyle isn't one to really listen when someone tells him no. He has a "my way or the highway" personality, though sometimes he'll actually listen to what other people have to say. He's gotten better over the years.

More often than not, Kyle gets himself into trouble because he didn't think about what exactly he was doing and he acted on impulse. His older brother, Val, who's a lawyer has had to get him out of jail on more than one occasion and is always telling Kyle to just calm down and try to refrain from just jumping into things.

Kyle has a very short temper, which goes along with the red hair, and it doesn't take much to rile him up(not a good thing when he's been drinking). He's very loyal to his friends and family and will fight anyone who says a bad thing about them. He'd die before he let anything happen to his little sister, Penny.

Background: Vallence, Kyle and Penelope were all born and raised by their parents, Peter and Sarah Wilson, on a small ranch in Texas. When the children were 14, 12 and 8, respectively, their parents were ambushed and murdered in cold blood by a neighboring rancher who wanted their land. Kyle and Val decided to take the law into their own hands and went to the man's ranch to 'pay him a visit'. Kyle killed Kavanaugh, the man who'd murdered their parents, while Val guarded his back and they left town shortly after, labeled as murderers and outlaws by the townsfolk there.

While Val went off to Europe to study, Kyle remained in the states, getting whatever jobs he could. He eventually decided to fight in the Civil War in a cavalry regiment for the South.

Weapon(s): Twin pistols from his deceased father and a rifle(that he only uses on occasion)

Other: He has a black gelding named Achilles that he raised from a colt

Controlled by eyes-of-a-hawk

Name: Corp. Adam Devon (aka James Caine)

Age: 26

Sex: Male

Job in respective group: Infantry, Union soldier

Weight: 210

Height: 6'2

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Blue

Physical description: Adam has the eeriest similiarity to the James Caine, a soldier in his company who was killed on the line of duty. Her has curly, shoulder-length brown hair that's been cropped short at his ears. He's tall and muscular, with blue eyes that shine in the light. He's got a tough air about him, and if he ever smiles it shows his teeth and immediately brightens when he's laughing.

Personality: Adam is a very serious person. He feels very deeply about the Union army and will fight for it until he dies. But he also has a raging temper and a mean streak a mile wide. He is a cruel, cold-hearted man, and bears hardly any similarity to James Caine.

Background: Born in Virginia, Adam enlisted with the Yankees despite his parents' plea to fight with the confederates. His younger sister, coincedentally named Katherine, believed in him and his cause and he left. It was there he met James Caine, a corporal by now in his company and became fast friends. When James was killed at Gettysburg, Adam felt the duty to find his friend's family and tell them how he died a hero. His regiment was then sent to defend the town this RPG takes place in, and, in the midst of battle, gets hit in the head with a rifle butt. Dazed and amnesiac, he tells a nurse that his name is James Caine.

Weapon(s): Any weapons he had were confiscated during his run-in with the enemy.

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