During the Civil War many Union soldiers remarked in letters home and later in memoirs about the spooky Rebel Yell, which attacking Confederates used to instill courage in themselves and terror in the other side. The Rebel Yell made quite an impression by the number of references to it. But what did it sound like?
This video by the Museum of the Confederacy discusses the effort to reconstruct the yell. Their recording is indeed spooky - it sounds like hounds closing in on the kill or a pack of coyotes celebrating a kill in the early morning hours, a sound we've gotten used to since moving to Arizona.
And, of course, we have Billy Idol's own version of the Rebel Yell.
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