Rambler: Upon recieving your PM, I came back to this thread and gave it a more thorough gong-over. I must say I'm impressed with the depth of research you have gone to in order to run this song down! Those of us in the Reenacting community do appreciate fellow Musicians taking the time and effort to authenticate a piece of music to the period prior to performing it in "in carachter", especially when the public is in camp. I'm not at all familiar with this piece, either in it's contemporary incarnation or any earlier works upon which it might be based. Can you direct me to a score, MIDI, or MP-3 of the tune, on the off chance I might recognize it? I have a lot of fairly obscure, forgotten CW period music in my archives, in which I can recall nothing like what you describe, and you can't do much better than the LEVY collection beyond that. I'd say right offhand that your "Rebel Soldier" song is a recent composition on a CW theme, of which there have been many since the Centennial. Nonwithstanding, I will give you a few links from which you may continue your inquiry - I hope that you find them helpful for this and future projects. I'm not going to bother with all that HTML poppycock this time (it's getting late) so you may have to cut & paste these URLs:
http://www.parlorsongs.com/parlorsongs.com/about.html
http://www.delphi.com/cwmusic/messages/
http://members.aol.com/jerund/jerund.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html
http://www.musicsearch.com/

http://www.pcola.gulf.net/~vbraun/FlaStar/songs/index.html http://sheetmusic.webprovider.com/index.htm

http://www.cwreenactors.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=general

http://www.erols.com/kfraser/

E-mail: Susan HOTH (Collector/Dealer CW Period Music): hoth@peoplepc.com

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