Tale of Zombies vs Steampunk

A Tale of Transformation and Innovation. A good man's quest had gone horribly wrong, causing a war weary young nation to struggle to survive. In 1834 a doctor was searching for a way to cure his family and patients. He accidentally created a condition more terrible than the world has ever known. Two warring cultures must now band together to combat this new foe. Across a mostly untamed America, where steamships and horseback are the fastest means of transportation, they knew they must outrun this enemy that was sweeping through the country like a virus. Creating new weapons and adapting forgotten methods, they needed to prepare for an altogether different kind of war. For if invention's mother is necessity, it's father must surely be desperation.