Sharpe's Beasts

I realize Sharpe's Rifles doesn't take place during the Civil War but here's the story the Dim Thoughts Center has been doing certain research into 4th dimensional mapping of certain quantum physics problems it was by accident that Louis 'Beauregard' Evans, a Civil War Buff discovered a method for traveling through time, First a temporal gate was constructed when it was demonstrated to work, Dim Thoughts' budget was tripled and the result was a portable time machine.

Your mission if you choose to accept it, is to stop Evans from attempting to change history by helping the South win by bringing modern weapons to their side, Who are you? You are one of many strange creatures brought together by a kindly and mysterious figure who claims to have a 'soft spot for stray animals' weather you were born by an accidental exposure to strange mutagens or forged by experimentation you are an Anthro Animal living in 20th Century America trained by your benefactor as specialists to help the helpless and solve 'specialty cases'