Don't Call It "The Dean Scream" Call It "Dean's Rebel Yell"

[norml]

The Rebel Yell


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A distinctive feature of the Southern soldier was the rebel yell, a long, quavering sound that became legendary. One of the challenges of reenacting is to determine what this famous call actually sounded like.

After the war a number of veterans sought to describe the yell in print. One of the most detailed descriptions came from J. Harvie Drew, a soldier in the 9th Virginia Cavalry. He gave this transcription of the rebel yell:

"Woh--who--ey! Who--ey! Who--ey! Woh--who--ey! Who--ey! (The best illustration of this "true yell" which can be given the reader is by spelling it as above, with directions to sound the first syllable "woh" short and low, and the second "who" with a very high and prolonged note deflecting upon the third syllable "ey.")
Others rendered the yell as "yai, yai, yi, yai, yi" and "y-yo yo-wo-wo." From these examples, it would appear the yell was both multi-syllable and also composed of pattern that was repeated several times.

snip http://members.aol.com/h4texas/yell.htm

[Clark2008]

1. As a Southerner...

Ummm... no.

[Melodybe]

2. As a proud MS democrat, I love it!!!

I will refer to it as that from here on out.

[havocmom]

3. Dean is from Vermont

I seriously doubt any Southerners are gonna buy your argument.

[norml]

9. I'm not saying that his is THE Rebel Yell, I'm saying that it's DEAN's

Rebel Yell. Billy Idol gave a rebel yell, why can't Howard Dean?

[utahgirl]

4. I think that would be

way way worse. Not a good idea.

utahgirl

[Melodybe]

5. What are we if not rebels?

I love it!

[Why Syzygy]

6. Ditto to previous posts

he said YARRRHGGHGHGHG .. is that not good enough?

Yah, think it was.

[Yupster]

7. Want to hear a real one

This is a recording of a 90 year old Confederate veteran performing what was probably the last "rebel yell" in 1935.

Be ready to be surprised. It doesn't sound anything like what you expect.

http://www.26nc.org/History/RebelYell/main.htm

The most memorable "rebel yell" in the war was the night after the first day of the Battle of the Wilderness.

General Grant had come east and began his campaign with the 120,000 strong Army of the Potomac against General Lee's 70,000 man Army of Northern Virginia. Lee surprised Grant by ripping into his flank in a densley wooded area of Virginia called the Wilderness. Grant turned to face the attacker, and threw his army back at Lee's for a horrible battle that lasted all day. The result was 9,000 Confederate casualties and 18,000 federal casualties. When night fell, both sides layed down in the burning forest where the battles stopped.

Late at night, the federal army got itself ready to retreat in the morning depressed once again realizing that even with Grant in charge, they were outfoxed by old General Lee. Then in the pitch dark of the forest, from the Confederate left began the much hated "Rebel Yell." It was picked up by the Confederate center and then moved to the right, then back again like a wave until the yell was sounded by the entire six mile front.

When morning came it was a shaken and beaten army that was prepared to retreat back across the river just like they had done after the Seven Days, Second Manassas and Chancellorsville. It was different this time though. General Grant took his beating, and told his generals the battle would be resumed in the morning, and the morning after that asnd the morning after that until they were able to batter their way into Richmond.

It took another year of hard fighting until Gneeral Lee's Army was ground into dust, but it happened as Grant said it would. He could replace his losses. Lee could not, so if the fight was continued, Grant would surely win. Grant had the determination to continue the fight, and he won a great victory when he finally chased down the remnants of General Lee's army at Appomattox a year later.

[norml]

8. Thanks for providing that. It sounds like Dean to me.

It's just broken up into numerous short bursts in this recording.

[spanone]

10. I was never offended by Dean's enthusiasm.

I never got the outrage.

[gorbal]

13. I got the outrage

But I didn't see it as an angry scream, more of a frenetic whoop of Joy. I think he should do it again, and the cooperate-owned news media can be eating their own feet for dinner.

[Digit]

11. Who cares about the scream...I like his enthusiasm.

We need him for chair.

[norml]

12. Headline, "Rebel Dean inspires gays in Florida "

True_Blue (1000+ posts) Sun Feb-13-05 06:39 PM
Original message
Rebel Dean inspires gays in Florida


With a rebel now heading the Democratic Party, Florida's gay Democrats vowed Saturday to be puppets of their party no longer and to bring social issues to the front of their party's concerns.

"I don't want to reach across the aisle; I want to win," said Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan, who is openly gay. "Republicans used our community as a wedge in the <2004> election."

Sheehan was one of about 40 Democrats from across the state to attend the quarterly meeting of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transsexual Caucus of the Florida Democratic Party in Orlando. Agreeing that a lack of organization hurt Democrats in November, they said unity will be vital if they are to overcome roadblocks to gay civil rights.

"We have four more years with George , and we have a big X on our heads," caucus President Michael Albetta said.
more....
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-asec...



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