Share 'George William Rockefeller, self-taught banjoist.'

Here is a danged interesting biographical sketch of a 16 year old George Rockefeller, who in 1859 built his own tackhead banjo, and "bought for a dollar a book entitled, Phil. Rice's Method, With or Without an Instructor," which in George's case was "without." "  After enlisting in company E of the 108th New York Infantry Regiment in July, 1861, he "regaled his comrades in camp with his various m…