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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."
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TOPICS: History; Hobbies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: advertisement; civilwar; confederacy; north; rebels; rebelyell; south; war; yankees
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posted on
12/22/2008 4:43:30 AM PST
by
Davy Buck
To: Davy Buck
Please tell me my ancestors didn't yell “hoody-hoooo!” as
they charged. (this is what i read other places).
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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)
To: Davy Buck
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--"
Union General John Sedgwick(suffering head-shot by Confederate sniper)
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:23:29 AM PST
by
laotzu
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.
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:26:38 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(The Tide Turned Just a Half Year After Pearl Harbor)
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 .....
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:29:56 AM PST
by
tgusa
(Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
To: tgusa
Don’t forget the Billy Idol version of “Rebel Yell”.
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:38:40 AM PST
by
o_zarkman44
(Since when is paying more, but getting less, considered Patriotic?)
To: tgusa
"Might be as totally uninteresting as a CD of bagpipe music, but then again ....."Shirley, you gest ;-)
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:42:36 AM PST
by
Hatteras
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.
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:45:29 AM PST
by
Terabitten
(To all RINOs: You're expendable. Sarah isn't.)
To: Davy Buck
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:50:44 AM PST
by
Hatteras
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
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:51:45 AM PST
by
Terabitten
(To all RINOs: You're expendable. Sarah isn't.)
To: Terabitten
That sounded like the coyote pups that yip around here in the middle of the night.
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:58:01 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
("Zero"..STILL using that stupid "Office of The President Elect" podium....)
To: Davy Buck
Knowing some of the people here I am surprised this hasn't been posted yet:
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posted on
12/22/2008 5:58:34 AM PST
by
sticker
To: sticker
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.
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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)
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
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posted on
12/22/2008 6:11:25 AM PST
by
sticker
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.
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posted on
12/22/2008 6:42:38 AM PST
by
tgusa
(Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
To: urtax$@work
Please tell me my ancestors didn't yell hoody-hoooo! as they charged.No, they cried "more more more!!!"
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posted on
12/22/2008 7:07:55 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin' about!)
To: JRios1968
Hangting out, by the state line, turning holy water into wine?
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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.)
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.
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posted on
12/22/2008 7:11:40 AM PST
by
Hatteras
To: Davy Buck
To: Travis T. OJustice
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posted on
12/22/2008 7:17:47 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin' about!)
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