Rebel Yell at Gettysburg

Video Title :	Rebel Yell at Gettysburg
Description :	75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, 1938. Footage of Confederate and Union veterans shaking hands over a stone wall. I don't know if this wall contained stones used in a stone wall during the actual battle in 1863, but probably so. It starts with the old veterans shaking hands and calling "Hello Yankee" and "Hello Johnny" and things like that, then one Confederate near the camera takes up the Rebel Yell for a few seconds. Laughter is heard (source unknown, possibly a bystander), then the old old Johnny identifies it: "That's the Rebel Yell!" One can only imagine the thoughts and memories brought up by that, especially among the Union guys on the other side of the wall! At http://www.46thmsinf.org/Rebel_Yell.htm is claimed that a jolt is perceived in the Union vets.
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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.

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

jcwilliamsmustdie5, I would tell you to go to hell, but you seem to already live in Yankeeville.

Dixie forever!!! Those oldh timers knew what it was about. I will fight beside a black southern against a white northern anyday!!!

Screw Dixie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

True! There were black cavalry units in Tennessee. My grandfather's grandfather rode with John Hunt Morgan in the 2nd KY and his servant went with him stayed throughout the war. He had plenty of chance to escape. His descendants are still cose with my family. I've worked in tobacco and hayfields with them side by side.

Me too..many days.. I started at 8 dollars a day, working side by side with black folks. Those same people knew my family for hundreds of years, and actually..THEY were grateful they somehow made it to America..albeit a crappy way to become an American, it beats dying of starvation in Africa.

Ha ha ha. Now ain't that the truth!!

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.