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@eden-anderson 🙂 Okay, in that case, here goes! 😉

The first thing to note when you’re in the process of planning a story based on the American Civil War, is that there are still people who believe adamantly both sides of the question, and there are a lot of people in the middle as well.  When you write about WWII, the Nazis are the bad guys, and that’s all there is to it.  With the Civil War, it’s important to be aware of your target audience and be prepared for the fact that if you choose a side, the audience may grow smaller or larger depending on where and how you market the book.  From what I’ve seen in your synopsis you seem to be leaning toward the North, and are possibly a fully convinced Northern supporter.

But it’s not really that big a deal which side you’re on, it’s more of a big deal how you portray each side, and the backgrounds behind each side, and this is where historical accuracy comes in.  I’m going to ask here if you know the full background of how the Civil War started, about the Western states being added to the Union and the cotton industry’s need for survival.  So, have you studied that, and to what extent?  Or are you merely interested in the slavery and “underground railroad” aspects of the Civil War?  Because if you know all about it already 😉 I don’t need to go into great detail about it, and in my next post I can just give you a few plot points and historical details that I think might help with manufacturing a more interesting and less cliched story.  I just wanted to start there because I think that’s the biggest thing makes Civil War stories accurate or inaccurate.