Posted on 08/09/2012 6:13:36 PM PDT by One Name
Video from the Smithsonian of what must be octogenarian Confederate veterans calling up the past.
Interesting, but I suspect that the rebel yell was executed by soldier not generals and captains in that video.
I’m trying to imagine being 16 and in an all-out, do-or-die battle.
I’ve been in some hairy low-leverage situations at a penitentiary but I was older. Those old boys were young boys when they were pressed into service...
Sounded like snow geese.
Bump for later
You caught the soldiers, didn’t you?
2 of them. Here’s another one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssLMroT2euQ
My wife’ grandma told us her uncles fought at the battle of Shiloh, but they were all dead by the time I met her grandma.
Snows and Blues honk a little more than a Catamount, must have some scary geese up your way.
The Germans would have said the same if they had won WWII.
“My ancestry is a history of rebellion...”
Mine too. I think the Lord put a strong genetic aversion to subjugation in some families. My Scots-Irish ancestors (and living relatives) are among the toughest and most belligerent people on this planet. I’ve always been proud that my great-grandfather fought for the Confederacy, as did two of my great-great-grandfathers and their brothers.
Rebel Yell is the name of the schooner in my 4th novel. The skipper was inspired by the Billy Idol song, not the CW1 cry.
Thank you for posting this.
I never thought I would hear the Rebel yell.
These men are about 85-90 years old. It is amazing they could make that much noise.
I have read many Union accounts of hearing the “Rebel yell”.
It scared the bejeebers out of them.
You have to imagine 10,000 of these men, decades younger yelling as they ran toward the Union lines.
It unnerved the boys in blue, and made the hearts in gray stouter.
For a moment those old men were 17 years old again.
later
Thats what I derived.
All my life I’ve heard about the “Rebel Yell”.
I was born in central Missouri of mixed stock.
Hollywood turned it into a “Yee hah” thing. Those old boys had it in their souls from those days when their young lives were on the line.
“Still not sold above the Mason-Dixon Line.”
I came to South Carolina in 1966 as a new cadet at The Citadel. The local paper ran full page ads for Rebel Yell that said, among other things,
“You won’t like this whiskey unless you like grits, country ham, and redeye gravy.”
Lived here ever since. Wouldn’t trade it for the world.
I’d have been out in Nevada dodging the draft and panning gold across the Sierra.
For some folks on this site that's an unforgivable sin.
If the right side had won, state governments would still choose senators, you’d need papers to cross the Mason-Dixon, and Lincoln with his progressive centralized government views would have lost re-election and gone back to being a lawyer.
Some rebs went west, some went to Texas.
Some came home, to what was left.
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