Rebel Yell at Gettysburg
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
- 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
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is claimed that a jolt is perceived in the Union vets.
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.
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!
amazing historical footage and a testament to how deep wounds can heal over time
I agree. I believe this is a video called "Echos of the Blue and Grey." It has lots of film showing old Civil War vets from both sides. It's really cool.
@meginmd
The last Civil War veteran (a drummer boy named Albert Woolson) died in 1956.
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.
There is another authentic rebel yell on the internet. It doesn't really sound like the one in this video.
i'm glad i finally found the rebel yell :) it took a while to find
@phillitupp i'm a California history freak! i love american history!!!!!!
To Unhooked: the reason many slaves went to Canada was because slave bounty hunters couldn't bring the slaves back from Canada into the USA legally. Some northern states allowed southern bounty hunters to capture runaway slaves and return them to more years of horror.
Priceless!
Interesting. the Rebel Yell is not what most folks think it is, apparently... certainly not the "Yeee haaaaw!" of the Dukes of Hazard.
And folks, keep in mind that projecting the morality of today onto events 140 years in the past is foolish. While we feel that slavery, treatment of the Native Americans and other endeavors of the time are horrific, that treatment was common and almost universally accepted in it's day.
@StealthBreach Sad that we can no longer reconcile with our enemies this way.
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
Really cool footage. probably the only time people from the civil war have been caught on video like that
Morality in that sense is universal and timeless. Slaveholders 140 years ago, if asked, would have said they would NOT want to be a slave. Therefore, they were doing unto others NOT how they would have done unto them. This is the most basic element of morality, and has been around as long as concious thought: "Gee, I'd hate that if it were me." All the excuses for slaveholders based around the time they lived are bullshit, plain and simple.
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
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!!
@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.
Have you read South Carolina's secession declaration? It had a ton to do with slavery. Also, the line that DEFINED the "North" and the "South" was drawn entirely because of slavery. No, it wasn't everything, but to say it had nothing to do with slavery is completely incorrect. If slavery had never existed, there'd never have been a line drawn between North and South in the first place.
WOW!! What is wild!! Sould be save for ever!
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.
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.
Top bit of footage, "thats the rebel yell!" far fucking out!!!
@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.
It was actually a man named Albert Woolson who died in 1956 that fought for the union.
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.
wow...
wow very very old...
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".
@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.
DHARD 2008 - 'Cuckoo'
haunting
appears the 2nd yankee in on the right is the one who chuckles.
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 wouldn't happen to know where it is, would you?
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.
@deerhunter59ify haha you would have no idea! My grandpa is an Irish K-war vet from New England who has lived for a while in VA. and whenever we go down to visit him he always gets into cussing matches with his next door neighbor an old man who is a lifetime irish southerner. They of course are just messing around. My grandpa gets called a "yank" and the other man gets called "reb", or the competitive cussing each other out could just be the fact that they are both Irishmen haha.
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.
One of the best videos on the net.God bless the southern soldier
sound is here: th-cam.com/video/ssLMroT2euQ/w-d-xo.html&feature=related at about 3:01
It wasn't originally Abraham Lincoln's idea. The export of slaves and ex-slaves (both voluntary and involuntary) to western Africa had already begun in at least the 1840s. But I for one can never accept this "solution", for multiple reasons, including: it's wrong to use people then kick them out after abusing them to build your country, sending people where they can't belong/communicate, and against the will of the local inhabitants. It's not US land to make decisions about!
It's been over for 143 years would everybody get over it.
Yet here you are 😂
One of the ideas of "Honest Abe" that is conveniently swept under the rug these days. There was at least one meeting in the White House itself with black leaders, and in one speech Lincoln stated that the "white man" and "black man" could never live together in peace. The Liberia Plan was the Asshole Plan. Enslave Human beings, murder them, rape them, break up their families, give no rights, &c., use their labour, and then ship off their descendants to a place they know nothing about.
@phillitupp I'm amercian and I love history, i would never do such a thing! (I am serious)
What is a rebel yell
A war cry from the Southern soldiers, as they were charging into battle.
I can tell they used a camera phone
Recorded on a chicken nugget
Heh-heh...
Africa wasn't their continent of origin though. By Lincoln's presidency, how many slaves or ex-slaves were still living that were born in Africa? That's the point I was trying to make. It was sending US-born English-speakers to a continent where they spoke nothing, knew nothing, and were unwelcome foreigners stealing land from the locals. Who would that be best for?
PS: I assume you mean the Liberia Plan, making "their native continent" Africa. Except, Africa was not their native continent. Most of those who were to be shipped there had not been born anywhere in Africa, knew no local languages, and knew nothing about where they would be placed. To say nothing of carving up a country against the will of the local inhabitants. That's heavyhanded imperialism in the worst British-esque mode.
are they 100 year old?
Lincoln was far from honest; indeed, he was a liar and genocidist toward Native Americans. But the Confederacy was no better. We're talking about a nation(s) that murdered countless people and stole their stuff, and enslaved literally millions. I have no sympathies for either "side" in that war, they had it coming for what they toward slaves and natives.