The Rebel Yell in accuality had to be something both simple for the human voice to produce as well as something in common useage by the common man of the time. The recording of the Rebel yell fits these criteria in that it sounds like what I have heard many time of Coon Hunters calling their dogs as thier dogs chase and tree the Raccoons. The "YeeHaa" yell of common use now is more a Texas Cowboy Yell than the southern rebel Yell.

One of the factors that I have only heard once or twice at large re-enactments, which had to have effected and caused the Union Soldier to throw down their rifles and run to the rear as was recorded, is the echo effect. If you have never heard a large mass of men yelling and that sound echoing in the woods and valleys, doubling and tripling the effect, it is a truely bone chilling sound.