I would like to hear you someday. For that matter I'd like to view a CWR. My grandmother and her brother,born in the 1880's played an old fashioned 3 cord thumb-pluck style and sang songs back to the war.I have a notebook of hers wth words and little memory of the tunes. At least 3 of my greatgrandpaps were Confederate Veterans (Shen.Co,), I never got much beyond my 12 yr old guitar level. Now my one Maine grandson,11 plays and went with me to Nazareth.
If you'd like, PM me with an e-mail where I can send you an MP3 or *.WAV file of one of the tracks on my album "Home From the Hill".
When I recorded it, the old parlor guitar was having a bad day (they do that, what with the gut strings and all) so I had to cheat and use the steel strung Yamaha - it's a 12-string that i only string up with 6 in order to facilitate my fingerpicking style.
You might like Old "Lorena", which I'll bet your "War for Southern Independance" Ancestors knew quite well.
Where in ME is your Grandson? If he's anywhere near the Portland / Freeport area, my Reenacting Unit
(the Third Maine Volunteers - http://www.thirdmaine.org/introduction.htm ) -
is having a meeting and drill here in Yarmouth tomorrow (Sun. Jan 22) at 12:00 which he might be interested in.