Rebel Yell!

The 4th Texas Infantry Regiment at Sharpsburg, recreated to full scale by the Liberty Rifles at Antietam National Battlefield.

[brossAngus]

And that was at a company level. Imagine the Rebel Yell by a whole Regiment or Battalion.

[jacob]

You get the same noise as a result of an ice cream van offering free ice cream in a park.

[batmantrill]

Imagine hear this at night in an empty field

[oregonoutback]

As bone chilling as that is, imagine adding some Cowbell and Woo Pig Sooie into the mix 😳

[FleshyWhiteChocolate]

PoV:Me and the boys about to go lose a war

[nickdawg]

Imagine you’re sipping coffee by the river as a union soldier and you hear this.

[mgpreacher]

“…give them the bayonet; and when you charge, yell like furies!” -General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson ~1861

[WarhawkYT]

I can only imagine what an entire regiment would sound like or the sounds that you would hear during a battle.

[brucemoore]

There is a video filmed at the Gettysburg encampment of 1938, wherein a Union veteran was being interviewed at "the stone wall" just before the CSA vets were getting ready to re-enact their role in Pickett's Charge. When the organizers gave the CSA vets the word to move up to the wall and shake hands with the Union vets, the former "rebs" automatically let forth with their shrill battle yell. At that moment, the interviewer's camera was trained on the face of the Union vet, and the look of fear and horror that suddenly flashed on his face was startling. For a moment, he was transported back 75 years to a hot July day, when thousands of angry southern boys were coming to kill him.

[jesterboykins]

That’s just one regiment. Imagine an entire brigade! Good stuff boys! Yee yee

[guyatwood]

Dam fine lookin Infantry right there. These men use their vacation days to travel to events and educate the public as to what it was like during that war. They spend their own money and time to get it right. Respect for our forefathers.

[bigp]

Id heard a southern soldier who lived long enough to be recorded in his recreation of the rebel yell, then that yell wasmanipulated to sound like many. But this was very good.

[tillvalhalla]

As a former reenactor from Louisiana, I've always thought the North Carolina boys did the yell the best. Maybe because some of them have Cherokee ancestry, I don't know. But this is still great.

[smhmay]

Thank You for posting this video. I'm Texan and it chills my blood.

[jamesmckissock]

Now add in anger, fury and sorrow at brothers, fathers and uncles lost, add in missing breakfast due to a forced march to the battlefield. Oh man it'd be something.

[johnnycooper]

A veritable gray sonic wave that washed over many a Yankee soldier and often was the last sound he ever heard.
It even raised my southern hackles a bit, but in pride and honor. Godspeed patriots.

[jamescervi]

Thats the sound of 350 dogs freaking out about a haircut thats imminent.

[KoreanVolks]

Terryfing reenactment, but probably even more terrifying if it was actually serious with bloodlust in their voices and screams.

Thanks for showing us a glimmer of what could've been 🎉

[AmericanFlyOnTheWall]

"Fix bayonets! Meet 'em head-on! Hurrah, boys! Hurrah!"
🇺🇸💙🦅USA

[antman]

Imagine cooking breakfast in the morning, then hearing 20, 000 experienced soliders yelling like that within mere feet of your trench. no wonder those Union soldiers at Chancellorsville didn't stop running until they hit Mexico