One thing that was not mentioned was how dependent the British were on imported grain from the Union and how bad the harvest were in europe at the time. Siding with the CSA could have meant a shortage of Bread and an massive increase in Bread prices in Britain.
To paint the pictures and articulate the histories....he engages and entertains while he educates. He shares with true passion, his own passion for history. I wish to have had the opportunity to wittness Ed Bearrs on a history walk of the battlefields he used to interpret. Without sounding awkward......what an absolute treasure of a historian. I am a Canadian....and Ed Bearrs, along with Shelby Foote and a few others......have really brought to life the American Civil War. ....especially for those that have little knowledge of American History.
I may be way off but I always thought the Rebel yell was derived from old Cherokee war cries. Creek were another good tribe of fighting warriors who, I believe, employed a war cry. Thanks for sharing!
If you look at the video "Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell," it looks like every soldier had his own slightly different version--which probably sounded even crazier when you put them all together. Any intimidating effect the yell had on their opponents was probably along the lines of, "My God, these guys are NUTS."
Mark DC I'm no great fan of the Confederacy but to blame the loss of the War on Lee is nonsense. His forays into the North at Gettysburg and Antietam were failures, but he saved the Confederacy at least three times at 2nd Bull Run, at Fredericksburg, and most certainly at Chancellorsville. You of course would have won the war had you only been alive at the time. I admire Joseph Johnston but that's no reason to defame Lee
Funny thing is, the Spanish-American War is less the 6 months war. The Filipino-American War is from1899-1902 and it dragged on to the offset of the First World War. Filipino Army was wearing the Spanish style uniforms called the Rayadillo also. Moro wars is another segment of the Philippine War.
After watching this for the second time and studying intensively the Overland Campaign, this occurs to me. The two most decisive actions of the Civil War were when Grant was made General in Chief and Sherman was made commander of the armies in the West. This could not have been obvious or even known at the time, but in hindsight those two actions doomed the Confederacy.
Too bad it's been so heavily polished, it was a pattern-welded Damascus blade, be interesting to see the pattern. The "Eisenhauer" marking, btw, was a proof marking, meaning the edge could cut into a wrought iron bar without damage.
I think the actual thing--though this is closeish--would have been even more spirited, with more spontaneity and individuality; it would have been as much more scary as would this group of reenactors if they'd sprinted, dashing at the camera, bent low, with all energy and life, not necessarily in this meant-for-safety best formation while walking for the sake of their safety and that of their fellow reenacotrs, but moving FAST with anger and fear and truer violence and elation in mind, and not thinking so hard at the next step to yelling. I bet it was a lot fiercer, wilder, with more than twice as much spirit, youthful vigor, higher, with more variety, and less self-consciousness of "we're reenacting and have to behave still somewhat civil/normal/safe/sane".
i was told here in the uk a general on his horse with both hooves raised means he died on the battlefireld. one hoof means he died later of his wounds from the field. i can see they havent been very fair to poor old jackson on his horse with both hooves down. it seems indignified or done on purpose, raise one hoof at least and restore dignity
For the record...Robert E. Lee was not a slave owner. The only reason he had any dealings was through the death of his father in law who left his daughter over 200 slaves. Time tends to create and alter stories...the fact that Lee is one of the most loved and respected men of all time carries a certain amount of hate and falsehood. I was born in the north, lived there the first 25 years of my life and was taught that Lee was a traitor and slave owner as many of us were. However when I moved to Georgia in 1988 I began to hear a different version which inspired me to study actual letters from Civil War Archives, and other sources. The federal archives, Library of Congress are full of records that would change your mind if people took the time to learn the truth. History is written through the eyes and minds of the victors but after years of studying Lee's entire life one can only conclude that he was one of the most honorable men in human history. As with all governments throughout history we have learned that propaganda is seldom true and governments often lie to their people to push their own agenda. The greatest lies of all time were created to rally the people in support of a war that should never have taken place. You can learn more about Robert E. Lee and Traveller at Robert E. Lee and Traveller on Facebook.
docsouth.unc.edu/neh/leewilliam/lee.html There were those who were slaves and mistreated by owners in both the North and South but there were also those people that actually purchased slaves to free them, gave them homes, jobs, paid them, treated them very well and allowed them to buy their own freedom. Often when given the choice these "servants" we call "employees" today chose to stay where they were...it was there home.
TWSSH .The Natural Way The evidence cited in favor of the claim that Lee opposed slavery included his direct statements and his actions before and during the war, including Lee's support of the work by his wife and her mother to liberate slaves and fund their move to Liberia,[62] the success of his wife and daughter in setting up an illegal school for slaves on the Arlington plantation,[63] the freeing of Custis' slaves in 1862, and, as the Confederacy's position in the war became desperate, his petitioning slaveholders in 1864-65 to allow slaves to volunteer for the Army with manumission offered as a reward for outstanding service.[64][65] In December 1864 Lee was shown a letter by Louisiana Senator Edward Sparrow, written by General St. John R. Liddell, which noted Lee would be hard-pressed in the interior of Virginia by spring, and the need to consider Patrick Cleburne's plan to emancipate the slaves and put all men in the army who were willing to join. Lee was said to have agreed on all points and desired to get black soldiers, saying "he could make soldiers out of any human being that had arms and legs."[66]
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Many Union veterans found it comical. Read the enlisted men accounts. The 13th NJ book is a good account as they served both in the East and west. Just saying these Union boys were not all scared.
I would love to take lessons but where would I practice.I can just imagine the police kicking down the door. And then there is that embarrassing trip to Bell-view. What would the neighbors say?!!!
The audio of vets doing their rendition of the yell shows it was done in many different ways. It is really weird to think that the confederates all agreed on one way to do the yell, as if were even practical in the field of battle. Remember in the battle of First Bull run, the only instructions Jackson gave to his men, was to yell like furious. Obviously this instruction has a subjective meaning to every single soldier, and without having done the yell, (I presume) they would have simply given what they thought get that air up, to the best of their ability. Maybe over time the yell morphed into some kind of steady rolled out cadence of highs and lows, (I doubt that), but it would be impossible for anyone to teach this yell, as if it were something that needed to be taught.
The person in the video said they were doing it incorrectly, which I'm assuming to mean, the way southern boys are taught the yell today, probably isn't the same as the men who did it during the civil war. There is a video of confederate vets doing the yell, and each one does it differently. IMHO It isn't something that you can teach, it is something you just do in the heat of battle.
+Karen Bartlett Plus, I don't think it was purposely taught, like the Yankee "hurrah". I think it was just learned by hearing others doing it. Which would fit with the statement someone on here made that in different parts of the South, the yell was different. I'm sure also that it was more fierce in the heat of real battle. And I disagree that the Confederates were "terrified", accounts I've read said they were fired up and ready to fight ( Sam R. Watson, "Company Aytch", written by a man who served four years in the Army of Tennessee, CSA).
Yes. I read the same recently in newspaper articles about the men training for the Spanish American War. I'm sure we can probably thank Gen. Joe Wheeler or very likely some of his old unit and their offspring for both. The Battle for San Juan Hill was probably filled with the menacing sound as the men scaled the heights in Cuba.
Real Rebel Yell from actual Rebel soldiers in the early 1900's at www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/3play_1/what-did-the-rebel-yell-sound-like/?no-ist
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