A new book with a section on Sam Sweeney, JEB Stuart's banjo player in the field, is now available, just Google some of this info to get to a place you can buy it:

The Birth of the Banjo
Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy
Bob Carlin
ISBN 978-0-7864-2874-8

There's also a new supplemental site on CW period banjo on Google Groups to download from or upload to, or comment on, at:

http://groups.google.com/group/Albert-Baur?hl=en

- Danny