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47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War

History That Doesn't Suck

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The Rebel Yell

The sheer carnage is my mind blown as 58 caliber mini abollets in the canyon do their better work. The Federals make three such charges. The reward for their bravery is death and their lines start breaking. And with this almost final utterance of his life, General B will be dead within an hour. It's some sort of scream like a pack of ravenous wolves making a blood curdling howl before devouring its prey. That sound, that scream which will terrify yankies at many a battle yet to come. That, my friends, is what we call the rebel yell.

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