This is a great example of how the veterans of the civil war could put all their differences behind them and become fellow citizens in a United Nation. I just wish that some people today could do that as well, instead of trying to scream "THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT!!!" all over these videos or "THE SOUTH WAS EVIL!" As a southerner I have deep respect for my ancestors who served in the war yet I also have respect for their federal opponents who went through the same scourge of war. God bless America!
That's not accurate. Both of the supposed veterans who died in 1959 were not Confederate veterans, but false claimants. Their names were John Salling and Walter Williams. To be fair, in the audio recording I have of him, Salling didn't seem to be claiming to be an actual veteran (which he was not), but just that he picked up saltpetre as a child. This is indeed possible for an 8-year old, which was about his age at war's end. Both WERE born before the war, and over 100 years old.
They may have been real Confederate veterans but I have no doubt the real yell sounded scarier than that. This was more like a half-ass whooping sound.
Something not right here. The audio is (somewhat) clear but the film it's self looks as if it was make at a date way before 1938. like 1910 or something. My guess would be the film begain life as a silent one but had a soundtrack added later.
@carcano38 It looks weird because it was re-recorded off another screen. The same video is available on youtube in the original quality, and it was quite obviously recorded in 1938.
That is freaking epic to see actual Confederate soldiers on film and hearing a small sample of the legendary "Rebel Yell" I've heard so much about. Yeah, yeah, and it was neat to see the yanks too....
They had to yell as Dannoo007 stated as a matter of practicality. When running across the battlefield, you have to have a chance to breathe or you couldn't keep up the charge. Using the wha-whoo-eyyyyy allows you to breathe....try and see if you think I'm right.
A pedistrian quasi-nomadic life of four years wearing tattered and torn homespun and subsisting on a irregular diet of wild onions and hard tack, I would suspect that one could possibly be able to approximate a rebel yell. For me, I'm content just to watch this video. Thanks for posting it as a reminder that we do as Americans have the ability to come together regardless of our differences.
Even after 75 years they didn't trust the rebs and yanks being together. When they put them in their tents, the rebs were on one side of the road and the yanks on the other. The average age was in the mid 90's. Can't picture them going at it at that age.
i have heard each rebel company yelled in his own way. it was to scare the enemy but it was more used for officers to know where each company was in the midst of battle.
No disrespect to to the great people who served in WW2, but the men who fought in the Civil War, United or Confederate states, had to be the bravest two sides ever to fight in a war, for the reason that both sides had to fight Americans. No wonder it was our bloodiest war. Our greatest opponent ever and for all times was ourselves.
@Tedsonification America is not the center of the world. We don't all revolve around you. Other countries have had civil wars too and you don't have a monopoly on bravery....sorry.
@david42391 Not really mister. My great grandmother, b. 1866, my grandmother, and my mother all referred to those from the North as damnyankees - all one word, and none of them spoke kindly of them. There was a lot of damage done during the war and during Reconstruction. Maybe in a few more generations when our gene pool has been diluted sufficiently by carpetbaggers.
As one Veteran said, "it could only be done at a run." I could imagine a high pitched 'banshee squal' as Shelby Foote put it. In battle with the adrenaline rush you'd probably get ungodly sounding shrieks charging into a fight. The rebel yell was a throwback to the Celtic battle cry, since most Southerners were of Celtic descent.
This is an amazing video! These men survived the war and the disease and lived to be in their 90's. When they were born, photography was in its infancy. There were no moving pictures or recordings. To see the Union and Confederate veterans shake hands, talk and do the rebel yell is just amazing to me. God bless them all!
I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE REBEL YELL WENT LIKE THlS. "OH PLEASE DON'T SHOOT US IN OUR WORTHLESS HILLBILLY ASS, MR. GRANT,... WE SURRENDER!" WE REALIZE THAT SOUTHERN BOYS ARE FAR TOO STUPID TO FIGHT THE SUPERIOR NORTH. WE'RE SORRY, AND WE QUIT LIKE THE LITTLE REDNECK, INBRED PUSSIES THAT WE ARE! ROBERT E. LEE WAS A FUCKING JOKE! A COWARDLY PIECE OF SHIT SOUTHERN FAG! THE NEXT CIVIL WAS WE'LL DROWN YOUR KIDS & RAPE YOUR UGLY TOOTHLESS WIVES U DUMB FUCKING REDNECKS! BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!
how many people could shake hands with there enemy on the battlefeild they fought on buyt unlike other wars they were both americans fighting for a cause that was right in their eyes
Although anger and frustration Likly influenced lee's decision, his primary reasons were well thought out. The center was the weakeast point in the line and retreAting would have greatly lowered moral. He had to try one last time before admitting defeat. The charge wS a last ditch effort to win
good call.. when ppl talk about the Xs & Os of the battle, sometimes they forget Lee's psychological objective. He wanted to invade the North to leave an impression behind in the Norths' mind that too many Northerners were dying simply to hold the Union together... If Northerners saw the bodies of their local men piling up, maybe they would lose their will to fight. Lee tried to play that strategy out.
LOL It blows my mind that a modern person would try (in some strange way) to correct ACTUAL REBELS on their performance of the REBEL YELL. This is a great vid, thanx for posting.
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The dinosaurs are extinct, so is the rebel union of the Confederate states. It was only an issue on slavery, which is nonexistent today in modern America (except by illegal and involuntary prostituion). If another rebellion happens again, it will not be like the confederacy, and not about slavery. Most of the major confederate activities after the Civil War is John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Lincoln, which was not totally perfect (besides the president was poorly guarded in those days) :)
Its never a good idea to run up a hill out numbered and out cannoned it was impossible for them to break though basically unless if the union ran away like little girls which I highly dowt.
I would of liked to have seen stonewall jackson at the battle am sure there would of been a different outcome.
If they did, it would have only incited an insurgency, which while almost certainly futile, would have needlessly cost any more lives. The simple fact is that if you leave your adversary no avenue of retreat, he will fight to death. The same is true of maltreatment of captured enemy combatants: if you murder p.o.w's-- and make no mistake, what you are advocating is murder-- the enemy will fight twice as hard, knowing that he will die if he loses.
Your comments speak volumes to your utter lack of either experience of combat, or understanding of the basic principles of how to conduct it.
However, the men from both sides in the video ARE combat veterans, who fought each other tooth and nail for 4 agonizing years. Certainly each of them has lost countless friends to the men on the other side-- Yet, here they are, shaking hands like old friends. You could learn something from them.
Pathetic how those who scream the loudest for war and blood have seen neither, and do so from the behind the protective netting built by the blood, toil, and sacrifice of better men than themselves.
Less eloquenty: Eat a dick, "badasschill". I despise chickenhawks like you.
I am with you brother, be after what is right. North or South at this point doesn't matter. This, ever since and before, was the string pullers. . .so adept at pitting one against another. The South should have won because witness what was reaped ever since. . .you both are to blame. . .taxation without representation, perks, favors, welfare abuse. . .look what we ended up with . . .that fat would have been cut the other way around. Even Lincoln wanted to ship the slaves back. . .
@david42391 It was Pindar, a greek poet. It was later translated into latin by Desideririus Erasmus of Rotterdam, a Dutch Renaissance humanist-- often known simply as Erasmus.. In latin, the quote goes: "Dulce Bellum Inexpertis."
A more proper translation would be "War is sweet to the unexperienced", but what the hell. Either way, it certainly fits Badasschill's "Internet Badass" posturing.
I remember going to my grandfather's WWII reunions. The stories and all . . . this is a reminder of those. Having been to Iraq several times, I only hope that I can pass those stories on to my grandsons and daughters.
My Grandfather Served in WW2 44-46 He was in the Battle of the Bulge and dosen't want to go to his reuionions. Nore do I blame him!!!!. This Footage by the way is very kool by the way
Although this event happened many years after the end of the American Civil War, it gives us some moving images on a conflict that is mostly known about from books and photographs.
on the rebel yell: each man would go like: wha-whoo-eyyyyy. three parts. wha-short and high pitched like a bark. whoo-deeper and lower. eyyyy- again high pitch, and long. weird combination but thats how they were instructed to yell. obviously each man would do it in his own time, so a regiment charging would sound like a countinous 'eyyyyyyyy' shrill against a backround of barks and growls like 'wha-whhhoo-wha!'. fuken scary. there's a recording/recreation somewere on the internet, google it.
All I can do is put up this video, I can't correct the ACTUAL CONFEDERATE VETERANS who are performing what one of them calls the Rebel Yell. I'm sure that, at around or above 90 years of age apiece, their vocal chords weren't what they used to be.
Recreations are great, but I'm not sure what grounds we'd have to tell actual Rebels that they were doing it wrong, and that something done by people who weren't even alive then and never heard it in battle is "better".
Just make sure this video is always available because you Americans seem not to have a sentimental value for history. That is why you knock down historical buildings and then put a car park in it's place. WHY!
Because your average american citizen doesn't have time to understand what is going on around him. He's usually too busy working or involved with family things to notice how his history and heritage is being taken from him. I used to think we were just stupid as a community, but now I know it's because we are slaves to our government, and looks like we are going to be even further enslaved by all of the new taxes coming down the pike.
@phillitupp Its not like we dont try. Theres always people(usually civilians) getting signatures trying to stop a building from going up on a historical spot. Its the municipal and government authorities that are the ones that allow it or really dont care as much. They only care if they will receive any money for allowing this to happen.
@phillitupp This is precisely why historians, preservationists, and history students like myself seek to rescue such beautiful material from destruction and to restore it as best as we possibly can. It's such a shame that less and less Americans are valuing their nation's history.
I would also like to further point out that there are many descriptions of "the" Rebel Yell that directly conflict. Indeed, it's been written that there were many different Rebel Yells, from low-pitched groaning howls to high pitched yipping as you describe. There was no rule about it. Mostly it was just people screaming and yelling, and nothing was planned or decided in advance, they just got out and each man made whatever loud noise he wanted.
@IgnatzKolisch The charge yell is still a standard drill today in any national army - so i think they were actually trained to do it. With lots of variations and local embelishments, but I bet there was some element of discipline to it too, especially in that age of massed infantry assaults. The North had the "Hurrah!"/"Huzzah!"/whatever, the Rebs had this freaking Eyyyy thing !!!!
there is another vid on the tube that gives a better idea of what it was really like. god bless them, but in their old age and few numbers, all you can make out is a wha-whoo-woo sound, but is was more like a high pitch scream/shriek from hell
dude guys is there really a way to rehearse!! loll if your being shot at and chargin to kell some blue devils I dont think you give a damn how the yell sounds you just do it!! its not like you scream and your friend says "hey you know, you did that wrong"
It was poor battle strategy to launch such an attack in the open; Longstreet did not want to give the orders for Pickett to attack. However, bear in mind, the Yankees suffered in a similar fashion at Frederickburg - they were repulsed with very heavy losses. Also bear in mind, the REBEL YELL drove the Yankees to flight and fright at Second Bull Run, Gains Mills, Chancellorsville and in other battles.
I mostly agree with you. Once the North got competent Generals, the intimidating yell was of little value. Sherman certainly paid it no mind. Poor battle strategy is poor battle strategy no matter which side. Robert E. Lee was almost perfect, but the decision to send Pickett's men to their doom was a bad one.
General Sherman was intelligent and knew how to fight a war. Sherman acknowledged Nathan B. Forrest as the greatest soldier that the Civil War produced. If Forrest had the man power and resources he could have achieved even greater accomplishments. I believe that if Stonewall Jackson had been on the battle field at Gettyburg, the first day, the results of the battle would have different - just my opinion.
Jeremiah: If both Pickett and Longstreet advised against the charge, either they were more competent observers who were ignored, or Lee was in the middle of the emotions of anger and frustration and chose to force his will despite the impossibility of the task.
In the final analysis, Lee's career eclipsed his contemporaries and a plethora of others. But the buck stops with him, and he made the decision to charge against counsel to the contrary.
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jeremiah (the south shall rise again) ? ID REALLY LIKE TO HERE THE STRATEGY ON THAT ONE I SUPPOSE THE DINOSAURS WILL RISE AGAIN TOO ACCORDING TO YOUR LOGIC .... PEOPLE NEED TO THINK BEFORE THEY SPEAK AND STOP IT WITH THESE IDIOTIC STATEMENTS LIKE THAT if you havent noticed we are a united country these days and will be until the politics destroy us THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN HAHAHAHA YALL NEED TO PUT THAT FRIED FOOD AND THE BEER DOWN AND ATTEMPT TO GET OFF THE FRONT PORCH FIRST .
The dinosaurs are extinct, and can not possibly return! The South is not completely extinct, therefore could rise again. I suppose you should tell me about intelligence and strategy with a name like that.
@FUshudafugup If we are united UNTIL THE POLITICS DESTROY US, is it not possible for the South to rise in times of trouble like that, when being destroyed by politics?
And what was the basic right they wanted? To take slavery into new territory, newly formed states, etc etc. Were it not for that, there would have been no Civil War. To use euphemisms like "States Rights" to hide the "right" they wanted to preserve is a perversion of the facts.
The cause that the Confederates fought for is as real today than it was in 1860, that is the right of a people to govern themselves rather than hand power over to the big government we now have. Can anyone honestly say that our current system of government is working?
How is it not working? Do you think that a huge country can survive if the people as a whole do not join together (aka, government)? It would be anarchy. Also, it is time to end this misplaced idea that the reason for the Civil War was mere "states' rights". What was the "right" they wanted to take with them into newly formed states or territories? Slavery. Yes, the Civil War was over slavery, not simple states' rights.
Amazing that people will argue over a war that finished 143 years ago. Its over, forget about it. If the veterans (who are all dead) in this video can forgive each other Im sure the people alive today can.
Many upon many slaves escaped up here into Canada before,during and after the civil war, mainly into Nova Scotia. So if the southern states were so bad and the northern states were so good, why did so many blacks come up into Canada(not that it was any better for them) why didn't the ones in the south just go north of the Mason/Dixon line? So things couldn't have been much better in the north if at all.
Really now! Like the Confederates were just a pushover and you would have still considered taking them all out? If you did, you would find that much much easier said than done boy.
Oh yeah sure pnoozi, your comparing the confederates to the nazis. why don't you take a little trip down south and tell the southerners that, and we'll all know where you would finnish up.
stop bitching about slavery people. the war did start over it but only 10% of people owned slaves, most southerners saw that the union were invading their land to put a stop to their right, thus defended it like every other man would do. get your facts straight and shut up about getting over it. the fucing NAACP wont get over the fact that we had slaves
Yeah...the South lost...Get over it. It wasn't right, it wasn't fighting for States' rights, it wasn't defending the Constitution, and it sure as hell wasn't fighting for freedom.
Southerners weren't 'defending their land', in Kansas, the border states, and the Southwest. THEY were the invader, who were to trying seize other people's land. New Mexico and Colorado Volunteers were freedom fighters, resisting CSA oppression.
You still carry that vile rebel stench! God found the Confederacy detestable & sent Sherman to baptize the South by brimstone & fire as a modern day Sodom & Gomorrah. Even after God's wrath was unleashed the foulness of the depraved Confederate ideology still survives in the perverted minds of degenerates. Your false prophets were filthy demagogues & were punished for their wickedness in eternal hellfire. Just like Lot's wife those who look back in yearn will be turned into pillars of salt.
just like the stars and stripes flew over every slave ship that came to america. but the war was about slavery right?
Every Indian killed by bluecoats saw that stars and strips too just before dieing. yeah you guys are the best...i cant see why we broke away for 4 years.
Numbers are accurate. Doesn't matter what portion of the population owned slaves. What matters, is the fact that the elite portion that did, made all the rules, and controlled all the wealth.
Half the South's population was owned by between 5 and 10 percent, of it's wealthiest citizens.
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Like all rebels scum, these Johnny vermin dwell in eternal damnation, enjoying the company of Adolph Hitler, Jeffery Dalmer, and Saddam Hussein! They were not honorable men but a vile group of scoundrels condemned by The Almighty for ungodly acts of treachery and tyranny. While their rancid carcasses were left on the battlefield as maggot-meat for vultures, their wicked souls were sent to the deepest pits of hell to toil in suffering under the brutal lash of Lucifer for eternity! Good riddance!
There is no such place as "hell" except in your own mind.. literally. Hell is in a person's here and now. It is also not a place of eternal suffering. It is a result of our thinking and most people do not realize they live in a hell in their own minds, it is a normal state for most people.
Jesus taught eternal life, he said nothing about eternal damnation, only someone who thought he should have said it wrote it into the Bible. Eternal life is experiencing the joy of living- HERE AND NOW.
There is no such place as "hell" except in your own mind.. literally. Hell is in a person's here and now. It is also not a place of eternal suffering. It is a result of our thinking and most people do not realize they live in a hell in their own minds, it is a normal state for most people.
Jesus taught eternal life, he said nothing about eternal damnation, only someone who thought he should have said it wrote it into the Bible. Eternal life is experiencing the joy of living- HERE AND NOW.
My uncle (whom I adopted as a Grandaddy, since mine were too old by the time I was born) used to do this funny yell, he got it from his Daddy.
It certainly was not Yeeeehaw...or Wheeldoggies.
It was more like WhooEEeeee. And that was the Rebel yell..I'd heard it scared the yankees, because it sounded like Johnny Reb enjoyed what he was doing..I'll bet they did. I know my ancestor (50th GA. Vol Inf) and his brothers didn't do it because they had to, or because they were protecting slavery.
Those ancient old Johnnies couldn't give a proper rebel yell without their teeth flying out before they keeled over dead. One must imagine what it sounded like from the voices of tens of thousands of young adrenaline-fueled warriors charging into combat with Stonewall Jackson or John Bell Hood.
Looks like the 'Ol Rebels still got some fight left in them! They started that Rebel yell and they felt young again! The yanks looked like they were scared.
PErhaps if you heard in screamed en masse by the throats of much younger men that what you see here, and you were heading into life and death battle with them, it might frighten you, just a bit. In a letter to his mother, a northern soldier described it as "the most frightening sound this side of hell." Maybe you just had to have been there, isayeverything.
why don't you come to Gettysburg this July 4th weekend and perhaps with the 20,000+ re-enactors in attendance, you'll hear just how frightening it can be.
Damn, did you hear the rebel yell at the site IgnatzKolisch mentions in his description? The one from Pvt. Thomas N. Alexander of the 37th NCT as recorded by WBT Radio of Charlotte, NC ? Damn that sounds demonic
Black Confederates, yes I did say that, who served in the American Civil War,
the idea that blacks in the south willfully fought for the confederacy is ridiculous. They were obviously coerced to do so-if they had any choice about ANYTHING the first thing they would have done is get the fuck out of the south
You are assuming that all of the blacks in the south were dissatisfied with their treatment. The large number who stayed after the war was over and continued working for their old masters would indicate otherwise. Very few masters abused their slaves just for the fun of it. Slaves were expensive. It would be like playing golf with a faberge egg.
With a mouth like that, you must be a yank. And that my dear bluebelly shows why you know nothing about the war. Everyone has a opinion, that's why we read books, we learn the truth.
you obviously don't understand nissykayo. my daddy's great great great great grandfather had slaves and he kept them well-fed, well-housed, and well-clothed and never layed a hand on any of em. they went back and worked for him for FREE after the war and they also took his last name. that's why you see black people with the same unique last name of a white person, [not a common name], because they were treated good. learn your history
I think that they should build a monument to Black Confederates, yes I did say that, who served in the American Civil War, some of whom were shot when captured just because they were wearing their Confederate Uniforms.
The evidence I've seen for these legions of black Confederates is anecdotal and lacking in historic context, hallmarks of poor scholarship, amateurism, or an agenda. Can you cite primary source evidence backing your claim that black men were shot "just because
appears the 2nd yankee in on the right is the one who chuckles.
ketasetcook 1 week ago
Any one of these fine Southern men could have been 1 of 4 of my Grandfathers...Thats who I and we are. God Bless Dixie. our home!!
wthjrtx1 3 weeks ago
so cool to hear
Civilwarbulletguide 3 weeks ago
This is a great example of how the veterans of the civil war could put all their differences behind them and become fellow citizens in a United Nation. I just wish that some people today could do that as well, instead of trying to scream "THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT!!!" all over these videos or "THE SOUTH WAS EVIL!" As a southerner I have deep respect for my ancestors who served in the war yet I also have respect for their federal opponents who went through the same scourge of war. God bless America!
tarheel1863 5 months ago
@tarheel1863 I do think the south's reasons for its intended secession were wrong, but it's good that some people can recognize that a war is over.
toddsmitts 3 months ago
if you look closly on the union side ........... one gentlymen knew exactly what that yell was !!!!! He looks up at he gentlemen next to him.
MrBepruitt 6 months ago
@xvidzzz maybe if the Yankees had attacked they would have yelled louder.
kozmon0t 7 months ago
The last civil war veteran died in 1959 at the age of 112. He was a confederate,but I don't recall his name without looking it up.
MrPirstel 7 months ago
@MrPirstel
That's not accurate. Both of the supposed veterans who died in 1959 were not Confederate veterans, but false claimants. Their names were John Salling and Walter Williams. To be fair, in the audio recording I have of him, Salling didn't seem to be claiming to be an actual veteran (which he was not), but just that he picked up saltpetre as a child. This is indeed possible for an 8-year old, which was about his age at war's end. Both WERE born before the war, and over 100 years old.
IgnatzKolisch 7 months ago
They may have been real Confederate veterans but I have no doubt the real yell sounded scarier than that. This was more like a half-ass whooping sound.
kozmon0t 7 months ago
Something not right here. The audio is (somewhat) clear but the film it's self looks as if it was make at a date way before 1938. like 1910 or something. My guess would be the film begain life as a silent one but had a soundtrack added later.
carcano38 7 months ago
@carcano38 It looks weird because it was re-recorded off another screen. The same video is available on youtube in the original quality, and it was quite obviously recorded in 1938.
Gunny761 5 months ago
i cant believe theirs people arguing on this vid about north vs south just shut up retards
MegaDanbo 7 months ago
the billy idol cover was way better.
fraggle1jock 7 months ago
That is freaking epic to see actual Confederate soldiers on film and hearing a small sample of the legendary "Rebel Yell" I've heard so much about. Yeah, yeah, and it was neat to see the yanks too....
gvillegmcck 7 months ago
Top bit of footage, "thats the rebel yell!" far fucking out!!!
TheChrisrg 8 months ago
sound is here: youtube.com/watch?v=ssLMroT2euQ&feature=related at about 3:01
exxcalibur1973 9 months ago
They had to yell as Dannoo007 stated as a matter of practicality. When running across the battlefield, you have to have a chance to breathe or you couldn't keep up the charge. Using the wha-whoo-eyyyyy allows you to breathe....try and see if you think I'm right.
chrikac 1 year ago
Really cool footage. probably the only time people from the civil war have been caught on video like that
skew06 1 year ago
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Cheers. To all.
GETTYSBURGbook 1 year ago
A pedistrian quasi-nomadic life of four years wearing tattered and torn homespun and subsisting on a irregular diet of wild onions and hard tack, I would suspect that one could possibly be able to approximate a rebel yell. For me, I'm content just to watch this video. Thanks for posting it as a reminder that we do as Americans have the ability to come together regardless of our differences.
Rockhound16 1 year ago
@Rockhound16 Well said, though it's may be lesser and lesser true.
Got to fight each other again and loose millions (ACW 600,000 casualties occurred in a 31 millions country)
to feel fellowship again.
061369317 1 year ago
are they 100 year old?
LINAZAS 1 year ago
@LINAZAS uhhh no. if they were alive which they aren't they be almost if not 200 years old by now.
ultradumbass 11 months ago
Even after 75 years they didn't trust the rebs and yanks being together. When they put them in their tents, the rebs were on one side of the road and the yanks on the other. The average age was in the mid 90's. Can't picture them going at it at that age.
deerhunter59ify 1 year ago
@deerhunter59ify Living up to 95 in 1938 and today are two different things.
You had to be built out of steel to live so old back then, that's why these gentlemen appear healthier than many today's 90+ people.
061369317 1 year ago 2
i have heard each rebel company yelled in his own way. it was to scare the enemy but it was more used for officers to know where each company was in the midst of battle.
ultradumbass 1 year ago
No disrespect to to the great people who served in WW2, but the men who fought in the Civil War, United or Confederate states, had to be the bravest two sides ever to fight in a war, for the reason that both sides had to fight Americans. No wonder it was our bloodiest war. Our greatest opponent ever and for all times was ourselves.
Tedsonification 1 year ago
@Tedsonification Your right! Ican't imagine walking in a line, sometimes just yards apart, and start shooting!
deerhunter59ify 1 year ago
@Tedsonification America is not the center of the world. We don't all revolve around you. Other countries have had civil wars too and you don't have a monopoly on bravery....sorry.
anvilofcrom 1 year ago
@anvilofcrom Says who?
JasperCountyNative 11 months ago
@badasschill
um no. killing people makes you no better than a murderer sentenced to death.
im sure a shit ton of redcoats would have loved to hang us during 1776
david42391 1 year ago
if the veterans on both sides in this video can shake hands then so can we
david42391 1 year ago
@david42391 Not really mister. My great grandmother, b. 1866, my grandmother, and my mother all referred to those from the North as damnyankees - all one word, and none of them spoke kindly of them. There was a lot of damage done during the war and during Reconstruction. Maybe in a few more generations when our gene pool has been diluted sufficiently by carpetbaggers.
tmodel1000 8 months ago
As one Veteran said, "it could only be done at a run." I could imagine a high pitched 'banshee squal' as Shelby Foote put it. In battle with the adrenaline rush you'd probably get ungodly sounding shrieks charging into a fight. The rebel yell was a throwback to the Celtic battle cry, since most Southerners were of Celtic descent.
OldVoice 1 year ago
This is an amazing video! These men survived the war and the disease and lived to be in their 90's. When they were born, photography was in its infancy. There were no moving pictures or recordings. To see the Union and Confederate veterans shake hands, talk and do the rebel yell is just amazing to me. God bless them all!
ouiouimoi 1 year ago
@ouiouimoi Apparently the oldest Civil War veteran died in 1958. What I'd give to sit down and talk with him.
meginmd 7 months ago
@meginmd
The last Civil War veteran (a drummer boy named Albert Woolson) died in 1956.
IgnatzKolisch 7 months ago
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I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE REBEL YELL WENT LIKE THlS. "OH PLEASE DON'T SHOOT US IN OUR WORTHLESS HILLBILLY ASS, MR. GRANT,... WE SURRENDER!" WE REALIZE THAT SOUTHERN BOYS ARE FAR TOO STUPID TO FIGHT THE SUPERIOR NORTH. WE'RE SORRY, AND WE QUIT LIKE THE LITTLE REDNECK, INBRED PUSSIES THAT WE ARE! ROBERT E. LEE WAS A FUCKING JOKE! A COWARDLY PIECE OF SHIT SOUTHERN FAG! THE NEXT CIVIL WAS WE'LL DROWN YOUR KIDS & RAPE YOUR UGLY TOOTHLESS WIVES U DUMB FUCKING REDNECKS! BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!
56Stiffy 1 year ago
amazing historical footage and a testament to how deep wounds can heal over time
busterbone 1 year ago
how many people could shake hands with there enemy on the battlefeild they fought on buyt unlike other wars they were both americans fighting for a cause that was right in their eyes
phillip549 1 year ago
Although anger and frustration Likly influenced lee's decision, his primary reasons were well thought out. The center was the weakeast point in the line and retreAting would have greatly lowered moral. He had to try one last time before admitting defeat. The charge wS a last ditch effort to win
Piemente 1 year ago
@Piemente
good call.. when ppl talk about the Xs & Os of the battle, sometimes they forget Lee's psychological objective. He wanted to invade the North to leave an impression behind in the Norths' mind that too many Northerners were dying simply to hold the Union together... If Northerners saw the bodies of their local men piling up, maybe they would lose their will to fight. Lee tried to play that strategy out.
peace
GeorgeWashingtonX 1 year ago
LOL It blows my mind that a modern person would try (in some strange way) to correct ACTUAL REBELS on their performance of the REBEL YELL. This is a great vid, thanx for posting.
SageofHistory 1 year ago 13
WOW!! What is wild!! Sould be save for ever!
DUSTY1373 1 year ago
What is a rebel yell
saxonsiphon 1 year ago
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The dinosaurs are extinct, so is the rebel union of the Confederate states. It was only an issue on slavery, which is nonexistent today in modern America (except by illegal and involuntary prostituion). If another rebellion happens again, it will not be like the confederacy, and not about slavery. Most of the major confederate activities after the Civil War is John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Lincoln, which was not totally perfect (besides the president was poorly guarded in those days) :)
DawnOfTheAcopalypse 1 year ago
the guy at the end sounds like col. potter from MASH
darraghtank 2 years ago
Its never a good idea to run up a hill out numbered and out cannoned it was impossible for them to break though basically unless if the union ran away like little girls which I highly dowt.
I would of liked to have seen stonewall jackson at the battle am sure there would of been a different outcome.
GameCenter2009 2 years ago
Obos alexjudo871 he was the greatest general shame some dumbass shot him by acident basically general Lees fault I say.
GameCenter2009 2 years ago
If they did, it would have only incited an insurgency, which while almost certainly futile, would have needlessly cost any more lives. The simple fact is that if you leave your adversary no avenue of retreat, he will fight to death. The same is true of maltreatment of captured enemy combatants: if you murder p.o.w's-- and make no mistake, what you are advocating is murder-- the enemy will fight twice as hard, knowing that he will die if he loses.
StealthBreach 2 years ago
Your comments speak volumes to your utter lack of either experience of combat, or understanding of the basic principles of how to conduct it.
However, the men from both sides in the video ARE combat veterans, who fought each other tooth and nail for 4 agonizing years. Certainly each of them has lost countless friends to the men on the other side-- Yet, here they are, shaking hands like old friends. You could learn something from them.
StealthBreach 2 years ago 15
Pathetic how those who scream the loudest for war and blood have seen neither, and do so from the behind the protective netting built by the blood, toil, and sacrifice of better men than themselves.
Less eloquenty: Eat a dick, "badasschill". I despise chickenhawks like you.
StealthBreach 2 years ago 10
I am with you brother, be after what is right. North or South at this point doesn't matter. This, ever since and before, was the string pullers. . .so adept at pitting one against another. The South should have won because witness what was reaped ever since. . .you both are to blame. . .taxation without representation, perks, favors, welfare abuse. . .look what we ended up with . . .that fat would have been cut the other way around. Even Lincoln wanted to ship the slaves back. . .
1offkilter 2 years ago 3
@StealthBreach
i forgot who said it but it went something like
war is pleasant to those who have not experienced it
david42391 1 year ago
@david42391 It was Pindar, a greek poet. It was later translated into latin by Desideririus Erasmus of Rotterdam, a Dutch Renaissance humanist-- often known simply as Erasmus.. In latin, the quote goes: "Dulce Bellum Inexpertis."
A more proper translation would be "War is sweet to the unexperienced", but what the hell. Either way, it certainly fits Badasschill's "Internet Badass" posturing.
StealthBreach 1 year ago
@StealthBreach Sad that we can no longer reconcile with our enemies this way.
360Nomad 4 months ago
that was awesome glad it was preserved on film
brianstillwater 2 years ago 6
I remember going to my grandfather's WWII reunions. The stories and all . . . this is a reminder of those. Having been to Iraq several times, I only hope that I can pass those stories on to my grandsons and daughters.
psyopsair 2 years ago 2
My Grandfather Served in WW2 44-46 He was in the Battle of the Bulge and dosen't want to go to his reuionions. Nore do I blame him!!!!. This Footage by the way is very kool by the way
Wehategod 2 years ago
Unbelievably AWESOME
tippitytop1 2 years ago
i'm glad i finally found the rebel yell :) it took a while to find
MoRgAndaye 2 years ago 4
Ric Flair does the rebel yell when he wrestled
Aznar245 2 years ago
Is that the wall on Seminary Ridge they shake hands over ?
helmuthoorn 2 years ago
i think the stonewall at picketts charge
jamezpackerfan 2 years ago
Although this event happened many years after the end of the American Civil War, it gives us some moving images on a conflict that is mostly known about from books and photographs.
Without doubt a valauble source.
frankophille 2 years ago 2
It is pretty cool to see these vets from both the north and south on film who lived fought in that infamous battle
anthonyali 2 years ago
Priceless!
lolantui 2 years ago 4
God bles the Confederacy!!!
theMacedonianWarior 2 years ago 6
@theMacedonianWarior
God Bless America. North and South, East and West
david42391 1 year ago
the rebel yell was described by a federal soldier as " a mingling of an indian whoop and a wolf howl"-Boys of the civil war(book)
FEAR0418 2 years ago 2
God bless you for posting this video.
Viggorn 2 years ago 3
This is a national treasure. Great find.
theroachksu 2 years ago 27
wow very very old...
jillcom 2 years ago
Excellent video.Thanks for sharing.
GoneDeadTrain 2 years ago
on the rebel yell: each man would go like: wha-whoo-eyyyyy. three parts. wha-short and high pitched like a bark. whoo-deeper and lower. eyyyy- again high pitch, and long. weird combination but thats how they were instructed to yell. obviously each man would do it in his own time, so a regiment charging would sound like a countinous 'eyyyyyyyy' shrill against a backround of barks and growls like 'wha-whhhoo-wha!'. fuken scary. there's a recording/recreation somewere on the internet, google it.
Dannoo007 3 years ago
All I can do is put up this video, I can't correct the ACTUAL CONFEDERATE VETERANS who are performing what one of them calls the Rebel Yell. I'm sure that, at around or above 90 years of age apiece, their vocal chords weren't what they used to be.
Recreations are great, but I'm not sure what grounds we'd have to tell actual Rebels that they were doing it wrong, and that something done by people who weren't even alive then and never heard it in battle is "better".
IgnatzKolisch 2 years ago 16
Just make sure this video is always available because you Americans seem not to have a sentimental value for history. That is why you knock down historical buildings and then put a car park in it's place. WHY!
phillitupp 2 years ago 21
Because your average american citizen doesn't have time to understand what is going on around him. He's usually too busy working or involved with family things to notice how his history and heritage is being taken from him. I used to think we were just stupid as a community, but now I know it's because we are slaves to our government, and looks like we are going to be even further enslaved by all of the new taxes coming down the pike.
jardail 2 years ago 2
@phillitupp "The earth is for the living, not the dead." - Thomas Jefferson
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harleykman 1 year ago
@phillitupp No sentimental value for History in the US ?
Every single small hamlet has its 'town heritage center', so you must be kidding.
I'm from Europe and have been impressed by the care toward History which is shown in the US.
In Europe too, car parks are built, aren't they ?
061369317 1 year ago
@phillitupp I'm amercian and I love history, i would never do such a thing! (I am serious)
JesusFruit10 10 months ago
@phillitupp i'm a California history freak! i love american history!!!!!!
BlueFireTigerLion 9 months ago
@phillitupp Its not like we dont try. Theres always people(usually civilians) getting signatures trying to stop a building from going up on a historical spot. Its the municipal and government authorities that are the ones that allow it or really dont care as much. They only care if they will receive any money for allowing this to happen.
WRXSubaru08 7 months ago
@phillitupp As opposed to Europeans, who just turn historic buildings into rubble during land grabs called "war."
bltdonahue 6 months ago
@bltdonahue lol'd
SlipSloop 1 month ago
@phillitupp This is precisely why historians, preservationists, and history students like myself seek to rescue such beautiful material from destruction and to restore it as best as we possibly can. It's such a shame that less and less Americans are valuing their nation's history.
teawithmarmalade 6 months ago
I would also like to further point out that there are many descriptions of "the" Rebel Yell that directly conflict. Indeed, it's been written that there were many different Rebel Yells, from low-pitched groaning howls to high pitched yipping as you describe. There was no rule about it. Mostly it was just people screaming and yelling, and nothing was planned or decided in advance, they just got out and each man made whatever loud noise he wanted.
IgnatzKolisch 2 years ago
@IgnatzKolisch Each man had his own freedoms, like each state wanted their own.
Paganwarrior2000 1 year ago
@IgnatzKolisch The charge yell is still a standard drill today in any national army - so i think they were actually trained to do it. With lots of variations and local embelishments, but I bet there was some element of discipline to it too, especially in that age of massed infantry assaults. The North had the "Hurrah!"/"Huzzah!"/whatever, the Rebs had this freaking Eyyyy thing !!!!
LeMousqueteerBleu 1 year ago
there is another vid on the tube that gives a better idea of what it was really like. god bless them, but in their old age and few numbers, all you can make out is a wha-whoo-woo sound, but is was more like a high pitch scream/shriek from hell
willypete2171 2 years ago
dude guys is there really a way to rehearse!! loll if your being shot at and chargin to kell some blue devils I dont think you give a damn how the yell sounds you just do it!! its not like you scream and your friend says "hey you know, you did that wrong"
4thTexasInfCompanyB 2 years ago
Didn't really work for Pickett's boys, did it? All pushin ' up daisys an' done in by a handful of Yankees on top o' the hill.
4GooMan 2 years ago
It was poor battle strategy to launch such an attack in the open; Longstreet did not want to give the orders for Pickett to attack. However, bear in mind, the Yankees suffered in a similar fashion at Frederickburg - they were repulsed with very heavy losses. Also bear in mind, the REBEL YELL drove the Yankees to flight and fright at Second Bull Run, Gains Mills, Chancellorsville and in other battles.
Alexjudo871 2 years ago
I mostly agree with you. Once the North got competent Generals, the intimidating yell was of little value. Sherman certainly paid it no mind. Poor battle strategy is poor battle strategy no matter which side. Robert E. Lee was almost perfect, but the decision to send Pickett's men to their doom was a bad one.
4GooMan 2 years ago
General Sherman was intelligent and knew how to fight a war. Sherman acknowledged Nathan B. Forrest as the greatest soldier that the Civil War produced. If Forrest had the man power and resources he could have achieved even greater accomplishments. I believe that if Stonewall Jackson had been on the battle field at Gettyburg, the first day, the results of the battle would have different - just my opinion.
Alexjudo871 2 years ago 4
yes but Lee did not know his artillery missed that badly so you cannoy blame him.
jeremiahj13 2 years ago
Jeremiah: If both Pickett and Longstreet advised against the charge, either they were more competent observers who were ignored, or Lee was in the middle of the emotions of anger and frustration and chose to force his will despite the impossibility of the task.
In the final analysis, Lee's career eclipsed his contemporaries and a plethora of others. But the buck stops with him, and he made the decision to charge against counsel to the contrary.
Pickett blamed him until his death.
4GooMan 2 years ago 3
oh that I did not know. I still love Lee. The south shall rise again.
jeremiahj13 2 years ago 2
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jeremiah (the south shall rise again) ? ID REALLY LIKE TO HERE THE STRATEGY ON THAT ONE I SUPPOSE THE DINOSAURS WILL RISE AGAIN TOO ACCORDING TO YOUR LOGIC .... PEOPLE NEED TO THINK BEFORE THEY SPEAK AND STOP IT WITH THESE IDIOTIC STATEMENTS LIKE THAT if you havent noticed we are a united country these days and will be until the politics destroy us THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN HAHAHAHA YALL NEED TO PUT THAT FRIED FOOD AND THE BEER DOWN AND ATTEMPT TO GET OFF THE FRONT PORCH FIRST .
FUshudafugup 1 year ago
The dinosaurs are extinct, and can not possibly return! The South is not completely extinct, therefore could rise again. I suppose you should tell me about intelligence and strategy with a name like that.
jeremiahj13 1 year ago
ok mr.internet tough man
MiniInloesteam 1 year ago
@FUshudafugup If we are united UNTIL THE POLITICS DESTROY US, is it not possible for the South to rise in times of trouble like that, when being destroyed by politics?
toasthasbutter 1 year ago
@jeremiahj13 I like how you completely disregard these men's troubles.
wasp9 1 year ago
I can tell they used a camera phone
mugz28sc 3 years ago
Heh-heh...
CountArtha 2 years ago
This war may be over, but it will never be forgotten I can assure you that idol2idol
sshendrix 3 years ago 4
man yall need to study up nearly all the info i've seen on this page has been completely or partially incorrect
hurleyawsome 3 years ago
haunting
Chubachus 3 years ago
Yes the civil war was not about slavery, it was about state rights
falice88 3 years ago
And what was the basic right they wanted? To take slavery into new territory, newly formed states, etc etc. Were it not for that, there would have been no Civil War. To use euphemisms like "States Rights" to hide the "right" they wanted to preserve is a perversion of the facts.
Shipskeel 3 years ago
It was about the expansion of Federal power and taxes, thats what all wars are about.
darthroden 3 years ago 2
can u imagine a civil war in america today holly shit we would all be dead ahjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Irish8594 3 years ago
The cause that the Confederates fought for is as real today than it was in 1860, that is the right of a people to govern themselves rather than hand power over to the big government we now have. Can anyone honestly say that our current system of government is working?
hutchinson60 3 years ago
How is it not working? Do you think that a huge country can survive if the people as a whole do not join together (aka, government)? It would be anarchy. Also, it is time to end this misplaced idea that the reason for the Civil War was mere "states' rights". What was the "right" they wanted to take with them into newly formed states or territories? Slavery. Yes, the Civil War was over slavery, not simple states' rights.
Shipskeel 3 years ago
Amazing that people will argue over a war that finished 143 years ago. Its over, forget about it. If the veterans (who are all dead) in this video can forgive each other Im sure the people alive today can.
Idol2Idol 3 years ago
Many upon many slaves escaped up here into Canada before,during and after the civil war, mainly into Nova Scotia. So if the southern states were so bad and the northern states were so good, why did so many blacks come up into Canada(not that it was any better for them) why didn't the ones in the south just go north of the Mason/Dixon line? So things couldn't have been much better in the north if at all.
unhooked25 3 years ago
If I were those Union soldiers I would have still considered those Confederates the enemy and taken them all out.
pnoozi 3 years ago
Really now! Like the Confederates were just a pushover and you would have still considered taking them all out? If you did, you would find that much much easier said than done boy.
unhooked25 3 years ago
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lawl
Let's recount the events of the Civil War
1) Confederates surprise attack the north.
2) US chases you back to the south.
3) General Sherman leads the US Army across Georgia, burning and pillaging everything in his path and leaving nothing intact.
4) President Lincoln decides to let the traitors off easy, and allows the Confederacy to rejoin the Union.
Yea, I'd say you're a bunch of pushovers. What a shitty heritage to have. It's like coming from a family of Nazis.
pnoozi 3 years ago
Oh, I just realized you're from Canada. Sorry for implying that you were a Confederate, that didn't really make any sense.
pnoozi 3 years ago
Oh yeah sure pnoozi, your comparing the confederates to the nazis. why don't you take a little trip down south and tell the southerners that, and we'll all know where you would finnish up.
unhooked25 3 years ago 2
stop bitching about slavery people. the war did start over it but only 10% of people owned slaves, most southerners saw that the union were invading their land to put a stop to their right, thus defended it like every other man would do. get your facts straight and shut up about getting over it. the fucing NAACP wont get over the fact that we had slaves
xxblksabbathxx 3 years ago 3
Yeah...the South lost...Get over it. It wasn't right, it wasn't fighting for States' rights, it wasn't defending the Constitution, and it sure as hell wasn't fighting for freedom.
Southerners weren't 'defending their land', in Kansas, the border states, and the Southwest. THEY were the invader, who were to trying seize other people's land. New Mexico and Colorado Volunteers were freedom fighters, resisting CSA oppression.
wolfencrow 3 years ago
@xxblksabbathxx
you make it seem like you "just" owned a few slaves. like that makes slavery any less evil.
the south left the union because they were afraid that the north would abolish slavery which would destroy the south's economy
david42391 1 year ago
DHARD 2008 - 'Cuckoo'
Englishwhiteboy 3 years ago
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It's been over for 143 years would everybody get over it.
dog1267 3 years ago
Dhard2008 - you're an anus (at least u talk thru it!)
ragbones111 3 years ago
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You still carry that vile rebel stench! God found the Confederacy detestable & sent Sherman to baptize the South by brimstone & fire as a modern day Sodom & Gomorrah. Even after God's wrath was unleashed the foulness of the depraved Confederate ideology still survives in the perverted minds of degenerates. Your false prophets were filthy demagogues & were punished for their wickedness in eternal hellfire. Just like Lot's wife those who look back in yearn will be turned into pillars of salt.
Dhard2008 3 years ago
God is probely more with the Confedrates than the yankees.
devenci 3 years ago 7
Yeahhh...that's why the Stars and Stripes fly over every Southern state.
Gratia Dei Servatus...preserved by the grace of God.
wolfencrow 3 years ago
just like the stars and stripes flew over every slave ship that came to america. but the war was about slavery right?
Every Indian killed by bluecoats saw that stars and strips too just before dieing. yeah you guys are the best...i cant see why we broke away for 4 years.
bluegrassreb 3 years ago 4
LOL...Importation of slaves was banned in 1807. So your argument holds no water. Hmm...wonder why there were four MILLION slaves in the South by 1860?
Perhaps you should research the removal of the Cherokee to Oklahoma? A policy that was driven by and for wealthy Southerners.
Yeah...we ARE the best. The South got to participate in all of the benefits, despite the Civil War.
wolfencrow 3 years ago
perhaps u should look at your numbers and see that MOST southerners DID NOT even posses ANY slaves whatsoever...it was mostly wealthy land owners
Steven5800 3 years ago
Numbers are accurate. Doesn't matter what portion of the population owned slaves. What matters, is the fact that the elite portion that did, made all the rules, and controlled all the wealth.
Half the South's population was owned by between 5 and 10 percent, of it's wealthiest citizens.
wolfencrow 3 years ago
@wolfencrow
even in the South the war was a poor mans war. Most of the Southern soliders didnt own slaves
david42391 1 year ago
@bluegrassreb
probly because you supported slavery and we didnt
david42391 1 year ago
excuse me?
theMansalad 3 years ago
well said
Texaslocoman 3 years ago 2
wow...
DarkBro123 3 years ago
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Like all rebels scum, these Johnny vermin dwell in eternal damnation, enjoying the company of Adolph Hitler, Jeffery Dalmer, and Saddam Hussein! They were not honorable men but a vile group of scoundrels condemned by The Almighty for ungodly acts of treachery and tyranny. While their rancid carcasses were left on the battlefield as maggot-meat for vultures, their wicked souls were sent to the deepest pits of hell to toil in suffering under the brutal lash of Lucifer for eternity! Good riddance!
Dhard2008 3 years ago
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true that
AND THATS WHY THE UNION WON
Krazakyle99 3 years ago
Actully the Union wouldn't won or more likly would have won if the South stayed in for a bit.
"If I knew it was going to be like that I would never have surrendered"- Lee
" If this war was over slavery I would turn my sword and go to the other side"- Grant.
devenci 3 years ago 8
I'm curious, can you cite your source for the Grant quote?
jcsteele3 3 years ago
I bet you would follow hitler if he was alive.
devenci 3 years ago
Hitler and Jefferson Davis are TWO WAYYY different peopld
PapagenoJuan 3 years ago
*people*
PapagenoJuan 3 years ago
There is no such place as "hell" except in your own mind.. literally. Hell is in a person's here and now. It is also not a place of eternal suffering. It is a result of our thinking and most people do not realize they live in a hell in their own minds, it is a normal state for most people.
Jesus taught eternal life, he said nothing about eternal damnation, only someone who thought he should have said it wrote it into the Bible. Eternal life is experiencing the joy of living- HERE AND NOW.
Shipskeel 3 years ago
There is no such place as "hell" except in your own mind.. literally. Hell is in a person's here and now. It is also not a place of eternal suffering. It is a result of our thinking and most people do not realize they live in a hell in their own minds, it is a normal state for most people.
Jesus taught eternal life, he said nothing about eternal damnation, only someone who thought he should have said it wrote it into the Bible. Eternal life is experiencing the joy of living- HERE AND NOW.
Shipskeel 3 years ago
My uncle (whom I adopted as a Grandaddy, since mine were too old by the time I was born) used to do this funny yell, he got it from his Daddy.
It certainly was not Yeeeehaw...or Wheeldoggies.
It was more like WhooEEeeee. And that was the Rebel yell..I'd heard it scared the yankees, because it sounded like Johnny Reb enjoyed what he was doing..I'll bet they did. I know my ancestor (50th GA. Vol Inf) and his brothers didn't do it because they had to, or because they were protecting slavery.
csason 3 years ago 2
Those ancient old Johnnies couldn't give a proper rebel yell without their teeth flying out before they keeled over dead. One must imagine what it sounded like from the voices of tens of thousands of young adrenaline-fueled warriors charging into combat with Stonewall Jackson or John Bell Hood.
CatharticusX 3 years ago
jcwilliamsmustdie5,
I would tell you to go to hell, but you seem to already live in Yankeeville.
bluegrassreb 3 years ago
Dixie forever!!!
Those oldh timers knew what it was about.
I will fight beside a black southern against a white northern anyday!!!
bluegrassreb 3 years ago
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Screw Dixie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
jcwilliamsmustdie5 3 years ago
@bluegrassreb
we're all americans. ill fight beside any american. get with the times
david42391 1 year ago
That was Great!!
Looks like the 'Ol Rebels still got some fight left in them! They started that Rebel yell and they felt young again! The yanks looked like they were scared.
They went from "Hello" to the Rebel Yell!
Khoutek 3 years ago 3
maybe its just me but i dont see whats so terrifying about that sound...
isayeverything 3 years ago
PErhaps if you heard in screamed en masse by the throats of much younger men that what you see here, and you were heading into life and death battle with them, it might frighten you, just a bit. In a letter to his mother, a northern soldier described it as "the most frightening sound this side of hell." Maybe you just had to have been there, isayeverything.
GuinevereJuliet 3 years ago 2
why don't you come to Gettysburg this July 4th weekend and perhaps with the 20,000+ re-enactors in attendance, you'll hear just how frightening it can be.
brokenspears 3 years ago 2
Damn, did you hear the rebel yell at the site IgnatzKolisch mentions in his description? The one from Pvt. Thomas N. Alexander of the 37th NCT as recorded by WBT Radio of Charlotte, NC ? Damn that sounds demonic
dupahh 3 years ago
Ive got the real rebel yell on my video
StreetFightBroadcast 3 years ago
SOUNDS LIKE A TURKEY CALL TO ME!
First slave trader was a blackman who sold his family for a handful of trinkets.Many Blacks OWNED PLANTATIONS & BLACK SLAVES.
MANY WHITE SLAVES CAME TO AMERICA ALSO!
They were called BONDSERVANTS & they remained slaves LONG AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER!
I am a slave to my son who won't get off his a-- & wash his own dishes because he is addictd to YOUTUBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SusanDianeMurphree 4 years ago
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watch my vid for the rebel yell
StreetFightBroadcast 3 years ago
Black Confederates, yes I did say that, who served in the American Civil War,
the idea that blacks in the south willfully fought for the confederacy is ridiculous. They were obviously coerced to do so-if they had any choice about ANYTHING the first thing they would have done is get the fuck out of the south
nissykayo 4 years ago
You are assuming that all of the blacks in the south were dissatisfied with their treatment. The large number who stayed after the war was over and continued working for their old masters would indicate otherwise. Very few masters abused their slaves just for the fun of it. Slaves were expensive. It would be like playing golf with a faberge egg.
tlhonmey 3 years ago 3
With a mouth like that, you must be a yank. And that my dear bluebelly shows why you know nothing about the war. Everyone has a opinion, that's why we read books, we learn the truth.
dixielindalee 3 years ago 2
you obviously don't understand nissykayo. my daddy's great great great great grandfather had slaves and he kept them well-fed, well-housed, and well-clothed and never layed a hand on any of em. they went back and worked for him for FREE after the war and they also took his last name. that's why you see black people with the same unique last name of a white person, [not a common name], because they were treated good. learn your history
GdubLongSnapper 3 years ago 2
A lot of good men died at Gettysburg.
So did a whole mess of Yankees.
yankeehatinactor 4 years ago
TRUE VERY TRUE
StreetFightBroadcast 3 years ago 2
Ha ha ha. Now ain't that the truth!!
whelhosses 3 years ago
@yankeehatinactor
thats pretty ignorant man.
Lee never once called the Union "enemies"
david42391 1 year ago
haha yessss!!!!
SunsetRubdownz 4 years ago
I think that they should build a monument to Black Confederates, yes I did say that, who served in the American Civil War, some of whom were shot when captured just because they were wearing their Confederate Uniforms.
poorfellowsoldier 4 years ago
The evidence I've seen for these legions of black Confederates is anecdotal and lacking in historic context, hallmarks of poor scholarship, amateurism, or an agenda. Can you cite primary source evidence backing your claim that black men were shot "just because