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You Can Still Hear The Rebel Yell
http://oldvirginiablog.blogspot.com/2008/12/rebel-yell-liquid-or-audio.html ^ | 12/22/2008 | Richard G. Williams, Jr.

Posted on 12/22/2008 4:43:29 AM PST by Davy Buck

I recall reading that a Union soldier, observing his comrades fleeing in wide-eyed panic from the "rebel yell" at Chancellorsville said his former unit resembled "close-packed ranks rushing like legions of the damned."

(Excerpt) Read more at oldvirginiablog.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: History; Hobbies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: advertisement; civilwar; confederacy; north; rebels; rebelyell; south; war; yankees
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1 posted on 12/22/2008 4:43:30 AM PST by Davy Buck
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To: Davy Buck
Please tell me my ancestors didn't yell “hoody-hoooo!” as
they charged. (this is what i read other places).
2 posted on 12/22/2008 5:10:28 AM PST by urtax$@work (we have faced tenacity before....& The Best kind of Memorial is a BURNING Memorial)
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To: Davy Buck
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--"
Union General John Sedgwick(suffering head-shot by Confederate sniper)
3 posted on 12/22/2008 5:23:29 AM PST by laotzu
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To: Davy Buck

And the real rebel yell doesn’t sound much like what what we think of as the rebel yell. When one person yells it, not too impressive. However, I heard a recording where they recreated it being yelled in mass and it is scary.


4 posted on 12/22/2008 5:26:38 AM PST by PJ-Comix (The Tide Turned Just a Half Year After Pearl Harbor)
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To: PJ-Comix

There’s a link in the referenced blog to the Museum of the Confederacy which sells a CD of the ‘Rebel Yell’ for $10. Might be as totally uninteresting as a CD of bagpipe music, but then again .....


5 posted on 12/22/2008 5:29:56 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: tgusa

Don’t forget the Billy Idol version of “Rebel Yell”.


6 posted on 12/22/2008 5:38:40 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (Since when is paying more, but getting less, considered Patriotic?)
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To: tgusa
"Might be as totally uninteresting as a CD of bagpipe music, but then again ....."

Shirley, you gest ;-)

7 posted on 12/22/2008 5:42:36 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Davy Buck

There is audio of the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg. Some of the Confederate veterans (mind you, then in their 70s) fired up an authentic rebel yell, and the Union veterans confirmed by their statements that it was authentic.

It’s not all that impressive, coming from the throats of two or three pensioners, but it would be truly terrifying to hear it from a charging regiment.


8 posted on 12/22/2008 5:45:29 AM PST by Terabitten (To all RINOs: You're expendable. Sarah isn't.)
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To: Davy Buck
Try this...
9 posted on 12/22/2008 5:50:44 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Davy Buck
I stand corrected - it was the 75th anniversary, and said pensioners were in their 90s.

Here's a link to three recordings of the Rebel Yell performed by veterans:

Rebel Yell

10 posted on 12/22/2008 5:51:45 AM PST by Terabitten (To all RINOs: You're expendable. Sarah isn't.)
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To: Terabitten

That sounded like the coyote pups that yip around here in the middle of the night.


11 posted on 12/22/2008 5:58:01 AM PST by ErnBatavia ("Zero"..STILL using that stupid "Office of The President Elect" podium....)
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To: Davy Buck
Knowing some of the people here I am surprised this hasn't been posted yet:
12 posted on 12/22/2008 5:58:34 AM PST by sticker
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Post 12

Well, it definitely made my grandfather’s brother yell. He never drank during Christmas, said that was fore amateurs and that he was a professional.


13 posted on 12/22/2008 6:08:29 AM PST by Peter Horry (We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so .... Dixie Lee Ray)
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To: Peter Horry

Gee, a friend of mine and I used that same line to explain to the wives why we didn’t party on New Year’s Eve


14 posted on 12/22/2008 6:11:25 AM PST by sticker
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To: Terabitten; Hatteras

I was privileged to have a guided tour of Gettysburg a few years back with a Joint Forces Staff College group. I can’t even imagine what Pickett’s Charge must have been like - what a truly terrifying event. And I have a couple of ancestors who actually lived through it. Anything to bolster one’s courage would have been sorely needed. What incredibly courageous men those were, on both sides.


15 posted on 12/22/2008 6:42:38 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: urtax$@work
Please tell me my ancestors didn't yell “hoody-hoooo!” as they charged.

No, they cried "more more more!!!"

16 posted on 12/22/2008 7:07:55 AM PST by JRios1968 (Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin' about!)
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To: JRios1968

Hangting out, by the state line, turning holy water into wine?


17 posted on 12/22/2008 7:09:12 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: Peter Horry

New Years is amatuer night out. That’s when I stay home, light the fire pit and break out the good stuff.


18 posted on 12/22/2008 7:11:40 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Davy Buck

bttt


19 posted on 12/22/2008 7:12:24 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Drinkin’ it down...


20 posted on 12/22/2008 7:17:47 AM PST by JRios1968 (Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin' about!)
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