Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: YIPS

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

YIPS

REBEL YELL

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Historian Shelby Foote observed that nobody really knows what the rebel yell sounded like, but believed it was sort of a yip. He once asked a Confederate veteran if he could replicate it and was told that you need to be in full run to produce it. Since then the Smithsonian has unearthed an old reunion film where a group of old confederates do their best to reproduce it. They were not at full gallup, but the best we'll ever hear I reckon. H/T thoR.

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Anonymous said...: There are other recordings here: http://www.26nc.org/History/Rebel-Yell/rebel-yell.html

If you do something the government schools discourage, i.e., actually READ what these guys said they actually fought for, they fought to defend their homes from what they saw as a foreign invasion. The idea that the average CSA soldier believed he was fighting to "preserve slavery" is an historical fraud of epic proportion.

- One Man Gang; 7/30/13, 9:16 AM
Esteve said...: Visited Gettysburg in the late 80's with my family and was fascinated with the old footage of the Gettysburg reunions between the survivors from both sides. Comrades in arms, though they fought each other. Very moving. These old rebels who were once revered in America are now reviled.; 7/30/13, 9:58 AM
DougM said...: Reckon it was derived from the war whoop of Amerind braves.
Hey, that sound prob'ly scared the crap out'a their parents an' grandparents.; 7/30/13, 2:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Indian war whoop? Maybeso, but there is a strong Scotts/Irish tradition there too.
RAK; 7/30/13, 3:29 PM
toadold said...: The other interesting thing about that film is that they don't have much in the way of "Southern" Accents. Of course the Hollywood types seem to think everybody from a "Southern State" is supposed to sound like they are from Louisiana and even people from Louisiana don't have that Hollywood sound.; 7/30/13, 5:06 PM
Helly said...: Good grief. No wonder they lost.; 7/30/13, 7:00 PM
Anonymous said...: I was so hoping that Turtle Man got it right.; 7/30/13, 9:38 PM
DougM said...: RAK,
Y'might be right.
I was just speculatin'.
Not sure if one should be more askared'a drunken Injuns or drunken Irishmen or drunken Scots.
… or the sober ones.
/insulting-stereotypes; 7/30/13, 10:42 PM
drew458 said...: sounds like raccoons mating.; 7/31/13, 9:54 AM
Anonymous said...: "they fought to defend their homes from what they saw as a foreign invasion."

And Lincoln and Sherman proved those fears to be well founded.; 7/31/13, 2:52 PM
Snackeater said...: Nutsack caught in their zipper?; 7/31/13, 6:29 PM

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

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