@Will, I am afraid with your build, you would be a boot polisher at best. You could not carry 150+ LBS of gear 100s of miles and march 14+hours a day in that gear and be able to properly fight in it. The guys back then were rough, tough men that were in prime condition and had a lot of muscle to back it up and carry that gear. They were very strict and did not tolerate any bs of any kind what so ever. If you did happen to make it in there, your life to death rate would be 90% to die with in your 1st 5months, it was a very horrid survivability rate of war back then.
I would be sure to run to dads first, grab all his ammo and weps along with mine, and I would kill em all when I got there.
if we could breathe in space, Id get the hell off this rock!
What If: you were dead the second you got there