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

@JohnnyReb

2 ай бұрын

That was a Regiment.

@bross003Angus

2 ай бұрын

Looks to me about 200 men, which would have been a strong company. A regiment typically consisted of about 10 companies, so I was referring to actual numbers. Not what reenactors put on the field. Still, very impressive and intimidating.

@JohnnyReb

2 ай бұрын

@@bross003Angus Ah alright I understand what you meant now. In my research due to combat, prison, and disease a regiment that started out with 1,000 men in 1861 would be reduced to 2-300 men. Coincidentally the original 4th Texas Infantry Regiment had 200 men present for the battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam. On April 9th, 1865 the 4th Texas surrendered 145 men and 15 officers. So this video the Liberty Rifles put together is accurate. I was very impressed with it.

@richardlaur209

2 ай бұрын

@@JohnnyReb You only need to look at the troop levels at any of the major battles and regiments were usually under 500 troops in the field. Great info either way.

@simpilot8508

2 ай бұрын

This is the full scale 4th Texas infantry at Antietam, it’s a understrength regiment.

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

@vinteb7987

2 ай бұрын

I read that as furries

@idkprod.9233

2 ай бұрын

@@vinteb7987 Indeed

@user-jd1vs9tc6z

2 ай бұрын

​@@vinteb7987Mee too 💀 (it actually sounded like That)

@chrisivan_yt

2 ай бұрын

coyotes or a bunch of women? 😂😂

@ChaadFairservice20022

2 ай бұрын

He was a mason.. they lead the south into slaughter so they couldnt take the north, giving their northern mason brothers time to import their mercenary army to crush the southerners.

Terrifying even as a reenactment

@red88chevy

2 ай бұрын

Inspiring!!

@southron2279

2 ай бұрын

You weren't at Chickamauga 160th by chance snodgrass hill I was with the 54th va

@miyelir

2 ай бұрын

I am going to reel myself in hear and not make the comparisons I want to, I will simply state that there was absolutely nothing intimidating about this.

@garretrasmussen5253

2 ай бұрын

@@miyelir you weren’t a union soldier with the horrors of war around you either so I’d say your opinion is pretty irrelevant.

@bumpermanthesecond615

2 ай бұрын

reenactment?

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

@dani-from-cebu

2 ай бұрын

agree, add the roaring musket and cannon fire and now i understand that many have broke and fled when faced with rebel yells and charges, especially in the early civil war phase

@illinoismotionpicturestudi5065

Ай бұрын

We can start imagining when you make yo damned Antietam video.

@WarhawkYT

Ай бұрын

@@illinoismotionpicturestudi5065 we can imagine me with your mom 😏

@donhenze7672

19 күн бұрын

how about a brigade - a division

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

as a union reenactor, bone chilling

@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272

2 ай бұрын

A hundred men running at you with sharp metal sticks has to be the most terrifying thing a human can experience, anything more advanced than that I think is beyond our brains ability to truly appreciate.

@mathewthatcher6274

2 ай бұрын

Don't worry. Your team wins at the end

@cmcapps1963

2 ай бұрын

​@@mathewthatcher6274is it really over yet?

@JacobEnglander

2 ай бұрын

@@cmcapps1963slavery was abolished and the union was maintained.

@seanl7856

2 ай бұрын

@@mathewthatcher6274 Imagine thinking it's over lmfao.

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.

@FuttBuckerson

2 ай бұрын

Looks like he got the better of them "southern boys". Lmao

@KageMinowara

2 ай бұрын

Do you know the title of the video? I'd love to see it.

@brucemoore9708

2 ай бұрын

@@KageMinowara I'm sorry, but I can't. I saw it years ago on TV, but I just did a search on You Tube, and there are numerous short clips taken during the reunions of the early 20th Century. It could be in one of those.

@KageMinowara

2 ай бұрын

@@brucemoore9708 Ah that's too bad. Thanks anyway.

@johnwawryk3216

2 ай бұрын

Prove it, unless your daddy made a liar

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.

@ThatGuy-lv7hf

2 ай бұрын

Lol respect for the people that died to defend slavery ? Nah

@RoyMcRoyerson

2 ай бұрын

⁠even if that had been what they were mainly fighting for... Yes

@ConfederateNapolron-ih3pl

2 ай бұрын

The confederates didn't really fight for slavery, they fought for rights

@davidmccann9811

2 ай бұрын

I recently found out that one of my ancestors fought for the Confederacy, but he wasn't even an American. He was Irish and had served in the British Army for several years before crossing the pond. A few years after the war ended he came back to Ireland and ended his days (age 87) in England. I still have no idea why he was fighting in the US, maybe they paid him as a mercenary or such like. Great reenactment and greetings from the UK.

@garretrasmussen5253

2 ай бұрын

@@ThatGuy-lv7hf imagine thinking the sole reason a bunch of 19th century white men killed each other was for slavery 😂

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

Give 'em double canister!

@L0stEngineer

2 ай бұрын

Right here, sir, I found the battery commander!

@Aelxi

2 ай бұрын

"that's it Cushing, double canister!"

@ChineseChicken1

2 ай бұрын

@@Aelxi Cold Harbor 💪🏻

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.

Sounds like war of rights

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

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 🎉

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.

@guyspearing4608

2 ай бұрын

It was often the last sound a lot of rebels often heard too! Like at Little Round Top or Picket's charge.

@johnnycooper657

2 ай бұрын

@@guyspearing4608 , or the eight thousand Yankees Grant sent to their deaths at Cold Harbor, which made Pickett's Charge look like a picnic. They didn't call him Butcher Grant for nothing. Godspeed patriots.

@Snakepliskin76

2 ай бұрын

​@@guyspearing4608 true, but I'd rather this than to have a Bostonian tell me that "after the party he parked his car near the harbor".

@greytooth898

2 ай бұрын

I’m a Southerner too, but the “rebel yell” is quite effeminate. They sound like a bunch of teenage girls.

@johnnycooper657

2 ай бұрын

@@greytooth898 , you, sir, are a prevaricating phony if you have a southern bone in your body. No honorable man from Dixie would dare defame his forbears who gave all for their country, clan, and cause. Don't bother responding, I never treat with traitors. Godspeed the Confederacy.

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

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.

bringing history to life. great video

"Then arose that do-or-die expression, that maniacal maelstrom of sound; that penetrating, rasping, shrieking, blood-curling noise that could be heard for miles and whose volume reached the heavens-such an expression as never yet came from the throats of sane men, but from men whom the seething blast of an imaginary hell would not check while the sound lasted." ~ Colonel Keller Anderson of Kentucky’s Orphan Brigade.

@marksnyder8022

2 ай бұрын

He seems personally biased. On Saipan, 2500 Japanese rose from concealment to attack... about 800 American combat engineers. They screamed Banzai at the top of their lungs. The Japanese literally we're amongst the Americans before they knew they were there. About a hundred Americans died. All the Japanese we're killed or committed suicide. One officer wounded in the attack said "How can you be afraid of someone who's yelling at you?"

@JohnnyReb

2 ай бұрын

​@@marksnyder8022 Those are Marines you're talking about. They just naturally don't give a shit about that.

@user-fu9vj9ix3g

2 ай бұрын

SUpposeedly, the Rebel Yell was derived from so many men of Scottish origin, who got from the Highlanders. There are letters from English sources that describe the Highland battle cry as sounding like the Rebel Yell. Banshees, they said.

@cstgraphpads2091

2 ай бұрын

@@marksnyder8022 Ah yes, I'm sure you've got evidence of this "officer" saying such. I'm sure the weapons the Americans had on Saipan were equivalent to the ones used in the 1860s too.

"I got a Henry and it ain't got that much range. Go ahead boys, bring it up closer to me."

Ken Burns did a wonderful documentary on the Civil War. Near the end there was an old film clip of several old men (ex Union and Confederate soldiers) who stood on opposite sides of a low stone wall, shaking hands across it. One guy on the Rebel side shouted "WOO HOO" and the nearest old Rebel said "that's the Rebel yell"

@Quantrills.Raiders

16 күн бұрын

ken burns is a yankee liberal

That was terrifying and exhilarating.

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

@brianc2619

Ай бұрын

Meet em head on and get beat even though you outnumber them 4 to 1 🤣

Awesome work! Hopefully one day I will get over and see a reeanactment!

I’ll bet that’s very much like what it looked like. Nicely done.

She cried more more more!

POV: You're a stormtrooper on Endor

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

in that fog coming over a hill at you that's crazy

Leedle leedle leedle lee!

Until Gatling showed up.

Could you just imagine that at a divisional level, absolutely terrifying

The last echoes of the Highland Charge under a Saltire!!

Good fighters in a bad cause.

@ChineseChicken1

2 ай бұрын

States Rights a bad cause? Ok....

@mirrorblue100

2 ай бұрын

@@ChineseChicken1 Human bondage.

@Ricky_the_Georgian

22 күн бұрын

Saving there homes from being burned by Sherman is a bad cause?

@ChineseChicken1

22 күн бұрын

@@mirrorblue100 Oh yeah? You realize slavery was still legal in certain northern states while they were supposedly fighting to free the slaves right? LOL, nice try bud 😆

imagine waking up in the middle of this

Me when unguarded Arizona southern brewed sweet tea is being sold in a small shop

Old hickory said we could take them by surprise if we didn't fire our muskets till we looked them in the eyes

…and then the Union artillery opened up and the screaming began in earnest.

@natashatomlinson4548

2 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly .

@garretrasmussen5253

2 ай бұрын

Other times yes other times no

@JohnSmith-kp7yr

2 ай бұрын

And then a freedman mugged and burglarized your house…

@LafayetteCCurtis

2 ай бұрын

Not really. By the time the Union got competent artillery in sufficient numbers, they would have started doing their deadly work _much_ earlier than this.

@frigglebiscuit7484

Ай бұрын

and now your union is a third world country

well that went up my spine

Johnny Reb always .put a fright into Billy Yank!

@guyspearing4608

2 ай бұрын

Not always. And Billy Yank put a lot of lead into Johnny Reb.

@fredflintystoneea

2 ай бұрын

We got 300 000 before they conquered us.

@guyspearing4608

2 ай бұрын

@@fredflintystoneea You said it.. before they conquered. End of slavery.

@FuttBuckerson

2 ай бұрын

​@fredflintystoneea and you're still desperately clinging to defeat with perverted pride.

@JohnSmith-kp7yr

2 ай бұрын

@@FuttBuckerson You don’t even have ancestors who fought in this war. You ride on the tailcoat of those who do.

Has to be a reenactment. In reality not that many would have made it very far into an open field like this one...💥⚔

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

Sounds very similar to muscogee or cherokee wooping.

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.

the Rebs had all the cool yells, and could cover 300 yards in less than 4 minutes, terrifying as that is, the Yanks prevailed

@NewSocialistEraVideos

2 ай бұрын

So all that whoop'in and a holler'n the rebels did didn't mean sh|t...lol

@Alfred5555

2 ай бұрын

300 yards in 4 minutes? What, are they crawling? Should be able to do that in less than 1 minute. And that's when weighed down by kit, on uneven wet grass in boots. That's only like 270 metres you know, 2/3 around a track.

@seanl7856

2 ай бұрын

@@NewSocialistEraVideos Neither did all the groveling and crying Che' Guevara did.

@NewSocialistEraVideos

2 ай бұрын

@@seanl7856 I suppose if the oppressing forces had the backing of the CIA I'd say Che's chances of winning were just as bad as them rebs. And I'm not exactly a fan of Che, he had too many bad qualities, even as a socialist.

@LafayetteCCurtis

2 ай бұрын

@@Alfred5555 300 yards in 4 minutes is a pretty reasonable brisk marching pace while keeping formation. 300 in a single minute would have been a flat-out sprint for most people without specialised athletic training and there'd be no formation left by the time they got to the end of that sprint.

Nowadays you can hear this at every football game.

Sounds like a bunch Dylan Milvaney’s running away ! 😂

That’s badass!

So is it derived from an Indian war cry? Pretty cool....

@TLeupus63

2 ай бұрын

"a fox hunt yip mixed up with a sort of banshee squall"

@Ureconstructed

2 ай бұрын

Nope. Not at all. You think American Indians are the only people to ever give a war cry?

@jesterboykins2899

2 ай бұрын

From first manassas. Stonewall told his men “to yell like fury’s”

@JWWhiteTX

2 ай бұрын

Most of the Confederates were of Scot-Irish ancestry, there was a little highland war cry tossed in the mix too.

@lollius88

2 ай бұрын

​@@JWWhiteTX And the Union soldiers?

Wow. Amazing

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

@ChineseChicken1

2 ай бұрын

That happened at the Battle of Perryville.

Wow, Just wow. The camera angle really makes you feel like you’re on the receiving end of that war-cry.

Bone chilling indeed.

Add bag pipes

Awesome

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

AWESOME

Wow imagine hearing that in the opening of Pickett's Charge! Wow

Dinners ready

@Ricky_the_Georgian

22 күн бұрын

Underrated comment

Sound like an army of turkeys

Man i never knew Billy Idol was into Civil War reenactment.

POV your a Union Drummer boy after a battle:

Really very cool!! :O

Dothraki ride?

I played it twice and still thought it sounded more like fans at a football game. Their numbers look intimidating though. As a former soldier the war cry I never wanted to hear is Ayo Gorkhali.

@Alfred5555

2 ай бұрын

Is that the British Gurkhas?

@Eric-kv1ip

2 ай бұрын

@@Alfred5555 That's correct but Gurkhas also serve in the Indian Army

@Alfred5555

2 ай бұрын

@@Eric-kv1ip Yeah, that's because it used to be the BIA, the British Indian Army. When they separated, the Indian Army retained most of the structure and regimental traditions. Gurkhas are also a big part of the Singapore and Brunei military.

@Eric-kv1ip

2 ай бұрын

@@Alfred5555 Good points, Alfred. As far as I know those are where Gurkhas serve in formed units but I also understand there’s a scattered few in the French Foreign Legion and with various private security firms. I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting any Gurkhas but I do recall as a Canadian UN peacekeeper passing through a Gurkha sentry position in the Sinai desert back in 1974 when this lone little fellow in his blue helmet stood by his sentry box, a long way from his mountainous homeland.

@Alfred5555

2 ай бұрын

​@@Eric-kv1ip I've read that they serve notably with UN peacekeeping missions, and no doubt all over the place. I suppose it's because they have such a wealth of homegrown natural soldiering warriors. I've never knowingly met any either, but in Britain they're still of course famous and fabled, the story of how we met each other as nations and all their remarkable exploits. The best bit of media I've seen that I think sums up their mythos, is during the Falklands. There is video of a senior commander on the radio on top a mountain receiving news of the Argentine surrender, all caught on camera. He turns to the camera, all rough and dashing as you'd expect, cigarette in hand, but relieved at the news, laughs "Bloody marvellous". But the story continues, as it turns out he had a detachment of Gurkhas sitting just with with him. It took a few moments for him pass the message on in translation, but in contrast they seemed quite left down and deflated that they weren't going to get their share of the action in front line combat, as the news commentator mentions, and according to their history, is very believable. kzread.info/dash/bejne/f4msttaIgZzHf84.html&ab_channel=IntenseHistory

Is one layer out of many. No cannon or musket fire or screams of death.

Impressive, always love seeing true company+ sized formations. But I must say that the classic, stoic, three Huzzahs always just hit a bit harder for me for some reason😌 (I acknowledge my bias)

First rank fire second rank fire independent fire at will

Was anyone else shooting an invisible musket at the screen and reloading as fast as they could?

How many guys were in this regiment?

@JohnnyReb

2 ай бұрын

Originally during the battle at Sharpsburg/Antietam the 4th Texas engaged 200 men. They left 54% of their comrades on the field after the battle. I'd say these reenactors number around 200 as well. So you're looking at a whole Regiment.

@Ureconstructed

2 ай бұрын

@@JohnnyReb well, not a whole regiment, but what was left of one. Thanks. That’s what I was wondering.

Sitting here watching it not so Intimidating ! Now if i was on the Battlefield and heard that sound coming at me i would be terrified! Any man who says he wouldn't be is a lier!

Oh, so this is the sound of canister being loaded!

They sound like raiding native clan. I’d shit boulders. Shitting rocks just hearing it now

American tribal ambush in total war empire be like:

and then you hear “fire” and your entire first line cracks a volley and half of those charging at you drop

@cstgraphpads2091

2 ай бұрын

Probably less than half due to inaccurate fire from raw recruits, new officers jumping the gun and firing before the group was in range, etc.

@LafayetteCCurtis

2 ай бұрын

@@cstgraphpads2091 That'd depend on the time period. In 1861 the Union companies were likely to fire too early and then turn and run. By 1863 they would have dug rough fieldworks, held their fire until the Rebels reached a more reasonable range, delivered a devastating volley or two, and maybe even countercharged at the end.

So cool

I thought we were fighting Indians for a second

@Ricky_the_Georgian

22 күн бұрын

A ton of natives fought for the csa, so you’re not completely wrong 😅

POV: you’re a union soldier

Supposed to be descended from the Higland Charge

The buybull belt yell.

I feel when Grant heard this , he was like" oh look canon fodder , how nice of them to let me know of their position "

attack at Chancellorsville right flank....

More! More! More! More! More!

Oooh, I'mma scared.

Now hear my Gatling's yell ;)

My dumb ass was expecting the Billy Idol song

Sounds more like a flock of drunk chickens.

@ChineseChicken1

2 ай бұрын

That's funny because it made the Yankees run like chickens 😆

I was expecting the Billy Idol song.

And that’s how they won the….what’s that Shelly? Oh….well…this is awkward.

The Union’s Gatling gun waiting across the field:

@tyrian_baal

Ай бұрын

They never used the Gatling in infantry combat lol

@Ricky_the_Georgian

22 күн бұрын

@@tyrian_baalthey did in the trans-Mississippi theater, but in only one battle.

Nothing a musket ball can’t fix

Sounds like my wife and two daughters off to the sales

I'm not even southern but it makes me wanna yell that it'll rise again

POV playing war of rights fighting as CSA

Billy Idol would be proud

not as loud as a union rifle or cannon

They don't sing Billy Idols song? I'm confused. 😂😂😅😅😅

No hay tiempo más que para disparar y recargar una sola vez..."" 🤔

а что этот птичий гвалт весной - реально был боевым кличем ? это скорее веселит.

Well done lads! Sadly some folks mistook this for a comprehensive representation of battle and think they have something to teach you. It's great to get to hear the yell essentially plucked out of everything else that would have been going on.