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Rebel Yell Captured - Fiendish Effect Discounted
emediawire ^ | June 28, 2005 | PRWeb

Posted on 06/28/2005 6:51:41 PM PDT by stainlessbanner

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To: streetpreacher

Mo! Mo! Mo!


41 posted on 06/28/2005 7:57:33 PM PDT by Gwaihir
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To: Corin Stormhands
What great courage those boys had.

General Pickett was heard, "Up men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia!"

42 posted on 06/28/2005 7:58:00 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner

If you saw the PBS series on the Civil War they had a film of some cofederate veterans marching in a parade. One of the vets gave a yell similar to the one posted here but with more of a corkscrew sound to it.


43 posted on 06/28/2005 8:01:13 PM PDT by Nateman (Captain: It's you! Judge : How are you Americans?All your base are belong to us!)
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To: bluefish; fso301
Oops, forgot to italicize the first line, quoting you. Anyway, listen to the yell again, but put this in the background:

Hope this works...

NOW it is scary, no?

44 posted on 06/28/2005 8:02:32 PM PDT by bluefish (Holding out for worthy tagline...)
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To: EarthBound

Might be interesting to ya!

http://www.26nc.org/History/RebelYell/main.htm


45 posted on 06/28/2005 8:04:03 PM PDT by MacDorcha (In Theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.)
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To: stainlessbanner

I keep trying to find a family connection. But the only unit I've identified so far was my great-grandfather's, the 8th Virginia Cavalry.


46 posted on 06/28/2005 8:11:46 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (www.kaineisnotable.com)
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To: stainlessbanner

I bet the veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia let out a friendly rebel yell to welcome Shelby Foote to heaven...


47 posted on 06/28/2005 8:19:02 PM PDT by 04-Bravo
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To: Hilltop

As a born and lifelong southernor, I can tell you it is not so different from a screech owl.

I have heard it a few times, but mostly from drunk southern rednecks.

It's the sound of desperation.


48 posted on 06/28/2005 8:23:45 PM PDT by girlangler
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To: stainlessbanner

You can say that again.

49 posted on 06/28/2005 8:33:49 PM PDT by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: girlangler
When I was a cadet at VMI we would do the "rebel yell" prior to the march out for parade. Always very cool.

SIC
50 posted on 06/28/2005 8:38:02 PM PDT by SICSEMPERTYRANNUS ("Our responses to terrorist acts should make the world gasp." - When Devils Walk the Earth)
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To: stainlessbanner

You just swig a pint or two of old Rebel Yell
and you will


51 posted on 06/28/2005 9:04:14 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Just trying to get in touch with my inner tagline..got feelers out but not much luck so far)
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To: bluefish
Thanks. A re-enactment using 10K volunteers would be a quite an experience.
52 posted on 06/28/2005 9:06:18 PM PDT by fso301
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To: stainlessbanner

Post #30 on this thread (2nd link) has a .wav file that was taken from the video "Echoes of the Blue and Gray" during the last Gettysburg Reunion. It was done at the "angle" in Gettysburg when Confederate and Union veterans shook hands over the wall. Although the man is old, this is truly a "Rebel Yell" ... as for the other link on this thread... I've never heard it before.


53 posted on 06/28/2005 9:14:56 PM PDT by CurlyBill (Liberals --- Aggressively spreading the "Culture of Weakness")
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To: stainlessbanner

How can you extrapolate the sound of one guy who was probably in his nineties to the sound of a troop of young men in their prime?

I think a rebel yell was pretty fearsome - enough to scare a whole corps of blue-bellies.


54 posted on 06/28/2005 9:17:33 PM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: SICSEMPERTYRANNUS

Heck,

When I moved to Louisiana from Tennessee, and went to college, I somehow got myself into a radio and TV broadcasting course.

After the whole classroom laughed at me I decided to be a PRINT journalist.

I can write, but I can't talk. I've been in some situations in the past few years where my midwestern friends said I had to learn how to talk "properly."

And, put me in the right situation and I can scream a rebel yell.

Only I don't know of any words to put it writing. But I can yell it!!


55 posted on 06/28/2005 9:32:44 PM PDT by girlangler
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To: Travis McGee

We used to relive this yell thing as lads playing Shiloh or whatnot.

Unlike Beauregaurd, we actually drove Grant back in the river.


56 posted on 06/28/2005 10:39:30 PM PDT by wardaddy
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To: Travis McGee

I look forward to that day........


57 posted on 06/28/2005 10:50:45 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: TASMANIANRED; stainlessbanner
Imagine the effect of 10,000 of them doing in all at once.

I stood on the spot on the Manassas National Battlefield where Daniel Webster's son stood with his New Hampshire artillerymen and listened to 30,000 of Longstreet's men coming up over the next rise at the charge. When they crested the rise, someone said later, they looked like an ocean coming. It must have been an absolutely awesome spectacle -- and sound!

Young Webster paid for the privilege with his life. A boulder of New Hampshire granite marks the spot where he was killed.

His artillery managed to hold Longstreet back just long enough, just a few minutes, that the rest of the Union left could get away and not be overwhelmed and crushed. The rest of the battle was a footrace, with death from behind culling the slow and tardy.

58 posted on 06/29/2005 2:21:32 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: stainlessbanner
I'm working on it. Will post if I get a sound bite.

Hey Stainless,

There's a moment in "God's and Generals" when Jackson's Corps hits the Union flank at Chancellorsville that they give the Rebel yell. It probably doesn't give it full justice but it gives me goose-bumps.

59 posted on 06/29/2005 7:27:55 AM PDT by w_over_w (Imagine if whenever we messed up in life we could press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start over?)
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To: TR Jeffersonian

Rebel yell ping


60 posted on 06/29/2005 7:50:00 AM PDT by kalee
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