Great post, Chief! "Where did the 'Rebel Yell' come from well many ideas have been suggested but as yet nothing is proven. Freeman thought it was an adaptation of the fox-hunters cry; a Virginian veteran that it came from a rural background when people had to shout out to each other in isolated areas."

The descriptions of the yell as a "woh-ye" and "ki-yi" remind me of a western song, with the refrain,"whoopi ki yi yeh, get along little dogie(calf)". It kind of fits, and maybe there is some crednce to the Texas source, as the Texas Brigade was posted in Virginia very early in the war, doing picket duty along the Potomac, near Dumfires. Then too, there is the habit of mountaineers to yell from holler to holler (hollow) to communicate.

The recordings were done by men in their nineties, with the inevitable weakening of their voices. Stan