Rebel Yell

[James]

This is nerve wracking. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end. Listen to the audio...

http://historypublishingco.com/?page_id=18

[ShotOver]

Thanks mate, interesting topic. That is crazy, sounds like a pack of Animals.

[Freibier]

Thanks for posting that! Always wondered what it sounded like.

[PrinzEugen]

Wow, talk about a historic recording! Thanks alot for posting, you made my weekend!

[Rebel Yell]

Yeah! Yah! YeaaaaH!

[SBL]

Awesome. Very interesting.

[CPLHUNTER]

Great post, I've always wondering as well...sounds like a wild rabid animal. Very scary

[ibstolidude]

This is nerve wracking. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end. Listen to the audio...

http://historypublishingco.com/?page_id=18
What a great - interesting post!

[KB]

Great find...

[xEDGEx]

F'ing awesome.

Army of Northern Virginia... that's my ancestors.

[Roids]

Always wanted to hear how it really was.

[socom6]

Disconcerting yells they got off from old native indians perhaps.

[ElHombre]

Thanks for the link!

[OldRecon]

Definitely didn't sound like Billy Idol p-).
More like a flock of crying gees migrating over in spring or the Monty Python Holy Grail: "We're not the knights of nee, nee, nee, we're the knights of ekki, ekki, ekkitapan!"

[James]

I'm glad you find it interesting.
My wife found it and sent me the link. We recently watched "The Civil War" by Ken Burns. I hadn't seen it for 15 years or more. It's a masterpiece.

[Roids]

I'm glad you find it interesting.
My wife found it and sent me the link. We recently watched "The Civil War" by Ken Burns. I hadn't seen it for 15 years or more. It's a masterpiece.

I watched that a few months ago and it was great, Shelby Foote was a nice addition to that film. They're going to release a Ken Burns WWII documentary pretty soon.

[stateofequilibrium]

Disconcerting yells they got off from old native indians perhaps.

Hey, isn't that quote directly from Killer Angels? :-)

[socom6]

Hey, isn't that quote directly from Killer Angels? :-)

If anything its pure coincidence.p-) But those rebel yells sound a lot like native american war whoops to me. The Americans in the south had lots of experience in "injun fightin" more than their Northern counterparts and know what its like battling screaming indians.

[shocker1]

THE REBEL YELL

None of us have ever heard it.
None of us ever will.
There's no one left who can give it.
Tho you may hear its echo still.

You may hear it up near Manassas,
and down around Gaines Mill.
In December it echoes in Fredricksburg,
in May around Chancellorsville.

It's the "pibroch of Southern fealty".
It's a Comanche brave's battle cry.
It's an English huntsman's call to the hounds.
It's a pig farmer's call to the sty.

It's a high-pitched trilling falsetto.
It's the yip of a dog in flight.
It's the scream of a wounded panther.
It's the shriek of the wind in the night.

It was yelled when the boys flushed a rabbit.
It was passed man to man in the ranks.
It was cheered when they saw their leaders.
It was screamed when they whipped the Yanks.

But none of us will ever hear it.
Tho some folks mimic it well.
No soul alive can truly describe
the sound of the Rebel Yell.

-Monte Akers
Its origin has been attributed to Texans imitating an Indian war cry, to Virginians giving the fox hunt cry, and to backwoods coon hunters repeating their cry to the hounds http://www.stonewallbrigade.com/articles_rebelyell.html
Good read on the yell. I bet my Great to the 4th grandfather yelled out that many times with Hood's Army of Tennessee. Thanks for posting.

[justagoodolboy]

gives me goosebumps

those boys sure could fight.

[Silver Cup]

I couldn't even imagine having an entire company yell that as they charged you from a tree line.

Thanks.

[mattnwnc03]

hell i yell like that everyday when i call for the dog to come in

[justagoodolboy]

hell i yell like that everyday when i call for the dog to come in

and back when i was a wee child momma yelled like that when she was hollerin for me to come home

[shocker1]

The last time I heard something like that an opossum got traped in the dog lot with my pit bulls.

[oldsoak]

Just one bloke making noises like that and waving a rifle in the high street would have me worried. :lol: G-d knows what it would have been like when there were thousands of them runnig towards you.