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Brigadier General William Surgeon Sharpe

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 Just a little character and a back story I came up with for a personal project. Please be kind, I am not a writer/scholar/wordsmith :(

Brigadier General William “Surgeon” Sharpe 

William came from rich Northern money and feared above all becoming “comfortable.”  He enlisted in the  4th Battalion, Kentucky Calvary.  Constant heckling by his fellow soldiers on account of his priviledged background made him desperate to prove himself. 

 Being an expert swordsman and fair shot, he would go on to establish himself as one of  the fiercest fighters the South had ever known.  He earned the name “Surgeon” from his clean and precise fighting style.  His passion for battle rallied troops around him, and turned the tide countless times.    Eye witness accounts claimed to have seen him  hopelessly surrounded by opposing troops only to emerge admist cleaved bodies and limbs.  It has been rumored that more than half of the crippled amputees of the civil war were due to his sabre.  

General Sherman took notice of his prowess, and promoted him to Brigadier General.  His name grew with the title to “The Suregeon General.”  It was here that Sherman saw his talents and put them to use in his “March to the Sea” campaign.

After the war William found himself without a cause.  His talents were wasted lingering in the confines of his large estate.  All of that changed with complaints of Natives laying waste to westward settlers.  Hastily reinstated, and finding himself commander of the 4th battalion once more, he had but one purpose left to him: civilize the west, by any means necessary. His cavalry terrorized the tribes to no end, and even when doing so, brought little to his cause.  

Until the day he came to know the braves of Chief Tanka,...the people of the West would know war had found them.

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great work!

but why do you blur the bottom of the image? i noticed you do that a lot.