Post by Everett Chancey on Sept 16, 2015 6:01:56 GMT
Name: Everett Chancey
Age: 38 (680 Points)
Archetype: Outlaw
Archetype Abilities:
Concealment: 30
Sneaking: 30
Ambush: 40
Firearm Accuracy: 40
Firearm Speed: 50
Unarmed combat: 40
Melee Weapons: 40
Survival: 40
Game Knowledge: 20
350
Other Abilities:
Performance (music-harmonica): 15 (30)
Horsemanship: 40 (80)
Raising Funds: 35 (70)
Explosives: 40 (80)
Will: 40 (80)
Stamina 40 (80)
Equipment:
Starting Money: $130
2 Colt 1831 Navy Revolvers:$100
24 bullets: $6
Tent (small): $5
Confederate Cavalry Saber: $15
Bowie Knife: Free
Current Money: $4
Background:
Everett Dean Chancey was born to poor farmers in Madison, Tennessee along the banks of the mighty Cumberland River. An avid outdoorsman, during poor harvest seasons he would often supplement the family income with his earning from hunting and trapping. When he was 13 his father died fighting in the Mexican American War and mother succumbed to scarlet fever, Everett becoming the head of the family. In 1848, Everett went into business with his uncle in Hernando, Mississippi. His uncle was killed there in 1849 during an argument with the Burdick brothers. In retaliation, Everett shot and killed two of them with his pistol and wounded two others with a knife which had been thrown to him. Amusingly, one of the wounded Burdick men survived and served with Everett during the Civil War . Chancey took up work for some time as a hired gun on a riverboat which ran between Memphis, Tennessee and Vicksburg, Mississippi. He became well known as a Memphis gun and Mississippi gambler. He was known to his acquaintances as a man of obscure origin and low associations, an avid duelist, but a man of great energy and brute courage.
After the Civil War broke out, Chancey returned to Tennessee from his Mississippi ventures, enlisted in the Confederate States Army, and trained at Fort Wright in Randolph,Tennessee. On July 14, 1861, he joined Captain Josiah White's Company "E", Tennessee Mounted Rifles as a private. Answering an ad posted by Nathan Bedford Forrest's for "men with good horse and good gun whowanna have some fun and to kill some Yankees", Everett joined the fellow Tennessean's regiment which Forrest had bought horses and equipment for out of his own pocket. Everett was a natural pick for Forrest's Escort Company (his "Special Forces"), for which he selected the best soldiers available. This unit, which varied in size from 40 to 90 men, was the elite of the cavalry.
Under Forrest's command, Everett received praise for his skill and courage during an early victory in the Battle of Sacramento in Kentucky, where he helped rout a Union force by personally leading a cavalry charge that was later commended by his commander. Chancey distinguished himself further at the Battle of Fort Donelson in February 1862. After his cavalry captured a Union artillery battery, he broke out of a Union Army siege headed by Major General Ulysses S. Grant. Everett rallied nearly 4,000 troops and led them across the river. In the battle of Fallen Timbers, he drove through the Union skirmish line. Not realizing that the rest of his men had halted their charge when reaching the full Union brigade, Everett charged the brigade single-handedly, and soon found himself surrounded. He emptied his Colt Army revolvers into the swirling mass of Union soldiers and pulled out his saber, hacking and slashing. A Union infantryman fired a musket ball into his spine with a point-blank musket shot, nearly knocking him out of the saddle. Everett grabbed an unsuspecting Union soldier, hauled him onto his horse to use as a shield, dumped the man once he had broken clear and was out of range, then galloped back to his incredulous troopers. A surgeon removed the musket ball a week later, without anesthesia, which was unavailable. He did however take a generous dose of alcohol to muffle the pain of the surgery. Even after his family plot was burned to cinders after the Union navy sailed up the Cumberland and took Nashville, Everett did not lose his zeal, fighting in Mississippi Alabama Georgia and Tennessee. He was there for the low points and the high, taking part without hesitation in Forrest's ordered massacre at Fort Pillow and the triumph at Brice's Crossroad.
It was shortly after Brice's Crossroad, while harrying the Union supply trains, that Everett and a dozen men under his command came across a wagon carrying an entire regiment's quarterly pay. The debate over what to do with the small fortune was short-lived, mostly because Chancey drew and gunned down the dissenters that wanted to relinquish it to the Confederate Army. The group deserted and and scattered to the four winds with their stolen goods, Everett heading West and settling in Jackson. After a few years of excessive drinkin', whorin', and gamlin' the paper was spent. Realizing that he'd had more fun spendin' money he'd stolen than he ever had money he'd earned, Everett took up a new trade.
Age: 38 (680 Points)
Archetype: Outlaw
Archetype Abilities:
Concealment: 30
Sneaking: 30
Ambush: 40
Firearm Accuracy: 40
Firearm Speed: 50
Unarmed combat: 40
Melee Weapons: 40
Survival: 40
Game Knowledge: 20
350
Other Abilities:
Performance (music-harmonica): 15 (30)
Horsemanship: 40 (80)
Raising Funds: 35 (70)
Explosives: 40 (80)
Will: 40 (80)
Stamina 40 (80)
Equipment:
Starting Money: $130
2 Colt 1831 Navy Revolvers:$100
24 bullets: $6
Tent (small): $5
Confederate Cavalry Saber: $15
Bowie Knife: Free
Current Money: $4
Background:
Everett Dean Chancey was born to poor farmers in Madison, Tennessee along the banks of the mighty Cumberland River. An avid outdoorsman, during poor harvest seasons he would often supplement the family income with his earning from hunting and trapping. When he was 13 his father died fighting in the Mexican American War and mother succumbed to scarlet fever, Everett becoming the head of the family. In 1848, Everett went into business with his uncle in Hernando, Mississippi. His uncle was killed there in 1849 during an argument with the Burdick brothers. In retaliation, Everett shot and killed two of them with his pistol and wounded two others with a knife which had been thrown to him. Amusingly, one of the wounded Burdick men survived and served with Everett during the Civil War . Chancey took up work for some time as a hired gun on a riverboat which ran between Memphis, Tennessee and Vicksburg, Mississippi. He became well known as a Memphis gun and Mississippi gambler. He was known to his acquaintances as a man of obscure origin and low associations, an avid duelist, but a man of great energy and brute courage.
After the Civil War broke out, Chancey returned to Tennessee from his Mississippi ventures, enlisted in the Confederate States Army, and trained at Fort Wright in Randolph,Tennessee. On July 14, 1861, he joined Captain Josiah White's Company "E", Tennessee Mounted Rifles as a private. Answering an ad posted by Nathan Bedford Forrest's for "men with good horse and good gun whowanna have some fun and to kill some Yankees", Everett joined the fellow Tennessean's regiment which Forrest had bought horses and equipment for out of his own pocket. Everett was a natural pick for Forrest's Escort Company (his "Special Forces"), for which he selected the best soldiers available. This unit, which varied in size from 40 to 90 men, was the elite of the cavalry.
Under Forrest's command, Everett received praise for his skill and courage during an early victory in the Battle of Sacramento in Kentucky, where he helped rout a Union force by personally leading a cavalry charge that was later commended by his commander. Chancey distinguished himself further at the Battle of Fort Donelson in February 1862. After his cavalry captured a Union artillery battery, he broke out of a Union Army siege headed by Major General Ulysses S. Grant. Everett rallied nearly 4,000 troops and led them across the river. In the battle of Fallen Timbers, he drove through the Union skirmish line. Not realizing that the rest of his men had halted their charge when reaching the full Union brigade, Everett charged the brigade single-handedly, and soon found himself surrounded. He emptied his Colt Army revolvers into the swirling mass of Union soldiers and pulled out his saber, hacking and slashing. A Union infantryman fired a musket ball into his spine with a point-blank musket shot, nearly knocking him out of the saddle. Everett grabbed an unsuspecting Union soldier, hauled him onto his horse to use as a shield, dumped the man once he had broken clear and was out of range, then galloped back to his incredulous troopers. A surgeon removed the musket ball a week later, without anesthesia, which was unavailable. He did however take a generous dose of alcohol to muffle the pain of the surgery. Even after his family plot was burned to cinders after the Union navy sailed up the Cumberland and took Nashville, Everett did not lose his zeal, fighting in Mississippi Alabama Georgia and Tennessee. He was there for the low points and the high, taking part without hesitation in Forrest's ordered massacre at Fort Pillow and the triumph at Brice's Crossroad.
It was shortly after Brice's Crossroad, while harrying the Union supply trains, that Everett and a dozen men under his command came across a wagon carrying an entire regiment's quarterly pay. The debate over what to do with the small fortune was short-lived, mostly because Chancey drew and gunned down the dissenters that wanted to relinquish it to the Confederate Army. The group deserted and and scattered to the four winds with their stolen goods, Everett heading West and settling in Jackson. After a few years of excessive drinkin', whorin', and gamlin' the paper was spent. Realizing that he'd had more fun spendin' money he'd stolen than he ever had money he'd earned, Everett took up a new trade.
