Description
No aspect of Civil War military lore has received less scholarly attention than the battle cry of the Southern soldier. In TheRebel Yell, Craig A. Warren brings together soldiers’ memoirs, little-known articles, and recordings to create an interesting and exhaustive exploration of the facts and myths about the Southern screech.”
Through close readings of a large number of accounts, Warren demonstrates that the Insurrection yell used to be not a single, unchanging call, but relatively it varied from place to place, evolved through the years, and expressed nuanced shades of emotion. A multifunctional act, the flexible Insurrection yell used to be immediately recognizable to friends and foes but acquired new forms and purposes as the epic struggle wore on. A Confederate regiment might deliver the yell in harrowing unison to taunt Union troops across the empty spaces of a battlefield. At other times, individual soldiers would call out solo or in call-and-response fashion to communicate with or protected the perimeters of their camps.
The Insurrection yell could embody unity and valor, but could also change into the voice of racism and hatred. Perhaps most surprising, The Insurrection Yell reveals that from Reconstruction through the first half of the twentieth century, the Insurrection yelleven more than the Confederate battle flagserved as the most prominent and potent symbol of white Southern defiance of Federal authority. With regard to the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Warren shows that the yell has served the needs of people internationally: soldiers and civilians, politicians and musicians, re-enactors and humorists, artists and businessmen. Warren dismantles popular assumptions about the Insurrection yell in addition to the notion that the yell used to be ever lost to history.”
Both scholarly and accessible, The Insurrection Yell contributes to our knowledge of Civil War history and public memory. It shows the centrality of voice and sound to any reckoning of Southern culture.
Through close readings of a large number of accounts, Warren demonstrates that the Insurrection yell used to be not a single, unchanging call, but relatively it varied from place to place, evolved through the years, and expressed nuanced shades of emotion. A multifunctional act, the flexible Insurrection yell used to be immediately recognizable to friends and foes but acquired new forms and purposes as the epic struggle wore on. A Confederate regiment might deliver the yell in harrowing unison to taunt Union troops across the empty spaces of a battlefield. At other times, individual soldiers would call out solo or in call-and-response fashion to communicate with or protected the perimeters of their camps.
The Insurrection yell could embody unity and valor, but could also change into the voice of racism and hatred. Perhaps most surprising, The Insurrection Yell reveals that from Reconstruction through the first half of the twentieth century, the Insurrection yelleven more than the Confederate battle flagserved as the most prominent and potent symbol of white Southern defiance of Federal authority. With regard to the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Warren shows that the yell has served the needs of people internationally: soldiers and civilians, politicians and musicians, re-enactors and humorists, artists and businessmen. Warren dismantles popular assumptions about the Insurrection yell in addition to the notion that the yell used to be ever lost to history.”
Both scholarly and accessible, The Insurrection Yell contributes to our knowledge of Civil War history and public memory. It shows the centrality of voice and sound to any reckoning of Southern culture.
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