The Rebel Yell Lives: Part I - Rediscovering History

This video, the first of two parts, examines the efforts of the Museum of the Confederacy to identify the authentic sound of the rebel yell. Museum President and CEO Waite Rawls describes the project, which involved locating original recordings of Confederate veterans and using those recordings to make an educational and entertaining compact disc.

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[banderashovel]

i played that on my computer,,3-yankees from my neighborhood ran like hell...

[hollywoodwerewolf]

I believe the Rebel Yell was strongly influenced by the Native American war whoops. Men born in the south who were in the soon-to-be fractured United States army heard it while fighting on the Plains and brought it back with them.

[Rulzion]

A great piece of wrok just like gaelic speaking Scots at a New Yeaer Ceilidh. Also see Utube "Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell "

[feardia]

It sounds exactly like 'the clare shout' which was used to rebel rouse in Ireland in the 1920's and before, specifically during the election of eamon de valera.

[ThunderCatMovies]

@joelceol so your basing it off of something you heard after the civil war? doesn't quite make sense, especially since hunting like that wasn't common in the antebellum south.

[ThunderCatMovies]

@joelceol so your basing it off of something you heard after the civil war? doesn't quite make sense, especially since hunting like that wasn't common in the antebellum south.

[joelceol]

when I was a Boy an old man would hunt his dogs in the SC woods behind my house. He would call them whoooeee whoooeee dog heeeeeeeiii here. If you replace the word dog and here with a bark you come up with a very close sound..I believe this is the basis for the yell. Many Southern men hunted with dogs in the 1800's ..I doubt indians had anything to do with it.

[pitatapiu]

@hollywoodwerewolf The Plains wars began AFTER the Civil War. But it was likely influenced by the Natives within the Confederate States, such as the Cherokee (of which there were whole regiments raised for the Confederacy), Choctaw, Creek, Catwaba, etc.

[lhhead2]

Now, oh Lord, mayest this thy servant depart in peace; for mine ears hath heard the glory...

L. H. "Larry" Head, Jr.

Texarkana, TX

[xanos4225]

I thought it was influenced by a panther call Old World battle cries.

[shiptech2k9]

That's some cry, I was so freaked out, I mean if i was in a battle with Confederates and heard that id shatter and it sounds like a bunch of beasts are around you. No other sound is like this

[vangion]

@hollywoodwerewolf It is most likely a blending of NA and Celtic cries. At the time the South was overwhelmingly from Celtic ancestry and war cries are a deep seeded part of Celtic warfare