Jamie, when you get enough coppers saved up, check out Rhett Butler's People, I read it during my won recent invasion of the South...here's a little taste.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=bCqBtVlhOiQC&dq=rhett+butler's+people&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=YfS17KwB63&sig=a6Ybgu_qqV-RbswZmwRg7V2HNPk#PPA4,M1

Cump.