What Is The First Documented Appearance Of The Rebel Yell?

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Random question: what is the first documented appearance of the rebel yell? What is the last? Was there a particular region where it was heard by those on the other side, or was it a Confederacy-wide occurrence?
 
I heard it through the wind during a terrible squall late one night on May 16, 1990 between the confederate line and the Yanks'. I was huddled up under a bridge overpass in Vicksburg taking shelter from the storm, and it was one of the most fearful moments I recall. I had to hide my eyes from it's passage of maniacal hysteria caught upon the night winds and rains, like rushing past in a vortex of a tornado. I know it is not what you are asking for, so the last time may have been upon the Gettysburg Anniversary when the old timers gathered, and meekly re-enacted their charge of Pickett's third day. I think Jackson mentioned somewhere early in the war that the troops yelled like demons. Best I can do.
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I believe the first documented appearance of the rebel yell was during First Manassas, as they quoted Stonewall Jackson ordering his men, "Reserve your fire until they come within 50 yards! Then fire! And give them the bayonet! And when you charge, yell like furies!"
This is the case according to The Civil War by Shelby Foote.
 
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