Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell

[OutHouse]

cool as all hell.


http://youtu.be/s6jSqt39vFM

 

[lxskllr]

Very cool. We're lucky to have that bit of history available :^)

 

[Lemon law]

Good find OutHouse as I can now better understand how intimidating that yell could be, especially in a area with limited visibility.

 

[bfdd]

wow amazing, thanks for the share!

 

[mizzou]

I have not seen that clip before, there is another older one of a gettysburg reunion with a guy doing it solo at a dinner table.

EDIT: That is a fantastic clip!

There's alot of differnet versions, the high pitched whoo is pretty common it seems.

LOL @ some of those old war vets trying so hard to belt it out!! that was awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7qvuHSg6U&feature=fvwrel
(2:38 mark for another version)

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[GoodRevrnd]

good lord, those youtube comments are GOLD. really cool clip though.

 

[chusteczka]

That was a fun video clip. Did I hear "Comrade Captain" at 1:05?

Maybe "Conrad ...".

The yell was not intimidating. I was hoping for more. That yell reminded me of the can can dancing girls whooping and hollering at the close of their dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7RQ3SOehJg&feature=related

 

[OutHouse]

I have not seen that clip before, there is another older one of a gettysburg reunion with a guy doing it solo at a dinner table.

EDIT: That is a fantastic clip!

There's alot of differnet versions, the high pitched whoo is pretty common it seems.

LOL @ some of those old war vets trying so hard to belt it out!! that was awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7qvuHSg6U&feature=fvwrel
(2:38 mark for another version)

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thats awesome, thanks for the link.

 

[OutHouse]

That was a fun video clip. Did I hear "Comrade Captain" at 1:05?

The yell was not intimidating. I was hoping for more. That yell reminded me of the can can dancing girls whooping and hollering at the close of their dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7RQ3SOehJg&feature=related

here watch this and add about 60,000 more voices to it. charging you from across the field.

http://youtu.be/BA-rOUdLcN0

http://youtu.be/g5v-DNJtp-M



It's also been documented that Confederate soldiers would do the Yell on long marches or even in camp, to boost moral. One such occasion the Yell was struck up in a rebel camp, then spread to the next and then the next. Soon the whole Confederate army camped in that area had joined in the cadence. Stonewall Jackson had walked out of his tent and leaned against a fence post to listen to the chorus. After it was over he said it was the most beautiful sound he ever heard.

 

[chusteczka]

here watch this and add about 60,000 more voices to it. charging you from across the field.

http://youtu.be/BA-rOUdLcN0

http://youtu.be/g5v-DNJtp-M
...

That was better, even disorienting. Thank you. :thumbsup:
It further strikes me as being high pitched, similar to the native American Indian yelp.

 

[mizzou]

That was better, even disorienting. Thank you. :thumbsup:
It further strikes me as being high pitched, similar to the native American Indian yelp.

That's where they "borrowed" it from

 

[Fayd]

here watch this and add about 60,000 more voices to it. charging you from across the field.

http://youtu.be/BA-rOUdLcN0

http://youtu.be/g5v-DNJtp-M



It's also been documented that Confederate soldiers would do the Yell on long marches or even in camp, to boost moral. One such occasion the Yell was struck up in a rebel camp, then spread to the next and then the next. Soon the whole Confederate army camped in that area had joined in the cadence. Stonewall Jackson had walked out of his tent and leaned against a fence post to listen to the chorus. After it was over he said it was the most beautiful sound he ever heard.

haka is scarier.

 

[Binarycow]

instead of yelling they should have worked on their other combats skills. That might have prevented the North from handed them their collective ass on a silver plate.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

instead of yelling they should have worked on their other combats skills. That might have prevented the North from handed them their collective ass on a silver plate.

The north had the industry, the trade, the numbers, the railroads.

The South was fighting an extremely uneven battle.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

instead of yelling they should have worked on their other combats skills. That might have prevented the North from handed them their collective ass on a silver plate.

Combat skills had little to do with it. Most of the US Army's best generals were Southerners. The North had vastly more people to draw troops from, 22 million, vs 9 million in the south, which 3.5 million of those were slaves.

The North won on attrition. The north suffered roughly 2x the amount of combat deaths as the South.

 

[Rastus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdphvuyaV_I

 

[sleep]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJv86RpLsVQ
2:05

woooooooooooooooo

 

[mizzou]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJv86RpLsVQ
2:05

woooooooooooooooo

im watching that movei right now, not there yet though

 

[BladeVenom]

Very cool. We're lucky to have that bit of history available :^)

Now almost everything is copyrighted for all eternity.

 

[Jeeebus]

odd, i didn't hear any of them yell "more, more, more."

 

[lxskllr]

Now almost everything is copyrighted for all eternity.

That video could conceivable be under copyright. It was made in the 30s, which is well into the copyrightable time period(>1922). It's a joke, isn't it? :^S

 

[chusteczka]

That video could conceivable be under copyright. It was made in the 30s, which is well into the copyrightable time period(>1922). It's a joke, isn't it? :^S

That is a really good point.

 

[Printer Bandit]

the south should have let the blacks fight for them.

 

[SP33Demon]

Fun piece of history.

 

[surfsatwerk]

odd, i didn't hear any of them yell "more, more, more."

I was waiting for this.