Battle cries

[Calmarac]

Are you talking about a Rebel Yell?

That was a bit beyond this game, in 1861 and nobody is quite sure what it sounded like…but it must have been frightening by all accounts….it unsettled the Yankees quite a bit.

Here's a clip of veterans at the 75th Gettysburg anniversary in 1938 demonstrating the Rebel Yell...

rest of anniversary page

From Dickson's excellent eye witness account of the Scots Greys at Waterloo -

"All of us were greatly excited, and began crying, 'Hurrah, Ninety-Second! Scotland for ever!' as we crossed the road."

... "They were all Gordons, and as we passed through them they shouted, 'Go at them, the Greys! Scotland for ever!'