People make a State. The States make the Federal Government. The Federal Government invading a sovereign State is an act of treason. The constitution limits the Federal Government's power. We now have a tyrannical Federal Government because we have stopped exercising our rights. Our representatives vote on bills that they don't even read for the sake of "national security." I don't think it about slavery.....come on!

I wonder- if states rights and not slavery was the reason the South rebelled, then what rights besides slavery were they fighting to uphold? In my experience, everything always comes down to the money. Always did and always will.

That's the same sound I make when someone puts a tack on my chair and I sit on it. Yee-OWWW!

SOUNDS LIKE MARINES

Federal troops invaded the South. Certainly, the average Southern defender was no more fighting for slavery than the present day American soldier is fighting for gay marriage.

"A random sample of 100 mainstream books will clearly support that the states rights issue was the driving force." That shows the influence of the Lost Cause. Ignoring what came after the Civil War says nothing about what came before it. "Approximately 25% of all southern soldiers who served during the war were either killed or severely wounded. These were indeed simple subsistance agrarians that never owned or could afford slaves." The south was a slave society in much the same way that Nantucket was a whaling society. Only a minority owned slaves, or had an ownership interest in a whaling boat. Nonetheless, most of the rest had both commercial interests and cultural ties to the major industry of the society in which they lived. The documents the seceding states drafted to explain their secession made clear that slavery was their primary cause. The fact that the Confederate Constitution was more restrictive than the US Constitution, and made slavery a permanent feature, belies the claim that the southern states were interested in federalism or states rights. They fought for slavery. Those who can't face that simple historical truth need to go back and read the source documents. Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video/What-Did-the-Rebel-Yell-Sound-Like.html#ixzz236oBR35W

This was incredibly informative. I often read about this sort of war cry, but had nothing to base it off except Hollywood, so thank you so very much for making this available for all to see, hear and experience.

Responding to comment of 9:31 on June 21 clearly implying that the Civil War was all about slavery and not all about states rights. A random sample of 100 mainstream books will clearly support that the states rights issue was the driving force. Approximately 25% of all southern soldiers who served during the war were either killed or severely wounded. These were indeed simple subsistance agrarians that never "owned" or could afford slaves. Shelby Foote in his classic series The Civil War: a Narrative, goes into great detail about how the majority of taxes at that time were levied on "cotton exports" (over 50% since this was well before income taxes showel up around 1913) and most southern states felt that they were carrying the burden of taxes for the entire country. On a social level we see the conflict between those that feel they are the disenfranchised 99% and those 25% that feel thay are paying 90% of all taxes. It is an iteresting side note that England abolished the ownership of slaves early in the 1800s. Importation of slaves to the US had also been abolished well before the war. England abolished slavery primarily due to the fact that in the late 1700s and early 1800s there were countless raids on the southern coast of England by pirates and naval forces belonging to the emirs of Morocco, Algeria, etc on the North coast of Africa. There are several excellent non-fiction books on this major problem and after thousand of "lost and enslaved Brits" they focused on a military solution, freed the available remaining slaves and abolished slave owning in England so as to not appear having to obvious double standard. Another interesting fact is that following the Emancipation Proclimation" the legislature of Illinois passed a short lived law that "prohibited" freed blacks from the south from moving north to Illinois (Shelby Foote: The Civil War A Narrative Vol 1 or 2 ?)(I apologize for mis-spellings, recent eye surgery makes editing on small scale difficult)

PLS any1 know where can i find and download original rebel yell sound??? GOD save the SOUTH

It made me think of the old navy ships who painted the gun positions red to hide blood. I suppose no one could hear casualties over that noise.

Since the U.S. was unarguably agrarian at that time, and southern labor was unarguably heavily invested in slavery, slavery was a major, critical factor included in the southern concept of 'states rights.' Let's not be silly about this anymore, the war was what it was, and it is over.

What I did not hear was the southern drawl.

My husband learned "The Rebel Yell" from his father who learned it from his grandfather who was in an Arkansas regiment. He did it for me in a closed car. BIG mistake. I had my eyes closed at the time and could imagine anyone hearing that bone chilling yell and not be thinking "I'm going to die if they get at me.". It's a very scary yell.

the rebel yell or the confederate flag doesn't have any thing to do with any racist group. the flag is to honor our confederate ancestors and what they fought and died for, a honorable cause, the war was not over slaves but states rights any of you who have a high degree of education should be able to find the truth, which by the way you will not find in the american history books or any class room, groups of people all thrugh history have not liked each other over skin color, did not the white race do this to the native american,but what about slaves, black people still own black pepole in africa, i don,t see no big fuss from any one about this, were is the naacp??? i am part native american and my ancestors fought for the confederate side. i am proud of it ! i am also a member of the sons of confederate veterans and i fly my flag every day at my home to pay respect to them boys of the south. thank you.