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- Smithsonian.com, March 12, 2012
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2. What Did the Rebel Yell Sound Like?
“To most of us, perhaps, the men who fought the Civil War may seem like the inhabitants of a sort of cinematic prehistory, quaintly memorialized in Currier & Ives prints, old newspaper engravings and the photographs of Mathew Brady,” writes Fergus Bordewich on Smithsonian.com. But thousands of Civil War soldiers were interviewed, recorded and filmed up through the mid-20th century. In this remarkable clip from the 1930s, Confederate veterans “like living ghosts in the flesh” step up to a microphone and belt out their best rebel yell.
Read Bordewich’s story about similar audio and video finds at the Library of Congress »
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Comments (3)
Thank you so much for this video! These men deserved to be able to live their lives with dignity.
Posted by christie meyer on June 16,2012 | 03:50 PM
Thanks for the video and information
Posted by Michael Aigner on April 26,2012 | 09:58 PM
Very Nice thaks for the video and info!! Ana Bikic
Posted by Ana Bikic on April 23,2012 | 05:38 PM