Gettysburg 1938 Reunion!

[terchris]

I found this webpage with some pictures of the old Rebs and Yanks at the 75th GB reunion.Plus is has some short video mpegs of them dancing,shaking hands and the old Rebs doing the rebel yell.Hope you like it.Just hit the link below!!!!
Gettysburg 1938 Reunion Mpegs

 

[mental_nomad]

I read in a Burke Davis book that during one reunion/ reenactment of Pickett's charge, there was something of a scuffle broke out when the union soldier's said something to the effect "they didn't make it the first time, won't let them now" to which the two sides fell to fighting...which in the tale was supposed to be sort of humorous but which instead led me to think, I bet PTSD was a very real and hellacious experience for them....

 

[oldreb]

Terry, neat site.

thanks

 

[terchris]

Thank you I am happy you liked it.

 

[Cap'n Dan]

Reunion Scuffle

My mother, a young 14 years old, boarded a train in Kenova, West Virginia with her father, John Nelson Hubbard, on their trip to Gettysburg for the 50th reunion in the summer of 1913. She noticed several of the veterans were dressed in their "Blue" and "Grey" uniforms. During the trip a few of the old soldiers begun verbally fighting the War over again. Mom said she broke in to tears...and the old veterans finally settled down and became a little more civil. Grandfather died in 1927 and Mom in 1996.

Regards, Cap'n Dan

Pvt. John Nelson Hubbard, Company A, 7th Indiana Infantry

 

[gary]

Thank you Cap'n Dan & mental_nomad

Now that's something they don't tell you about in those reunion write-ups where it's all handshakes and smiles between the **** rebels and **** Yankees.

 

[elektratig]

Great site -- thanks. But I can't say that that rebel yell scared the heck out of me!

 

[larry_cockerham]

Maybe you didn't hear the yell from the right guy at the right time. A twenty year-old slighty crazed Rebel with drawn sabre and revolver coming your way on horseback at full gallop might have been different?

 

[cwreader]

I know I am butchering this quote badly but here goes. If someone knows the correct quote please correct me.

At a confederate veteran reunion dinner many years after the war someone asked one of the old vets to give a demonstration of the rebel yell; to which, he replied, "Why you can't do the rebel yell with a full stomach and no teeth!"



Mary Ann aka cwreader

 

[RebAl]

THE REBEL YELL by Monte Akers

None of us have ever heard it.
None of us ever will.
There's no one left who can give it.
Tho' you may hear its echo still.
You may hear it up near Manassas,
and all around Gaines Mill.
In December it echoes in Fredricksburg,
in May around Chancellorsville.
It's the pibroch of Southern fealty.
It's a Comanche brave's battle cry.
It's an English huntsman's call to the hounds.
It's a pig farmer's call to the sty.
It's a high-pitched trilling falsetto.
It's the yip of a dog in flight.
It's the scream of a wounded panther.
It's the shriek of the wind in the night.
It was yelled when the boys flushed a rabbit.
It was passed man to man in the ranks.
It was cheered when they saw their leaders.
It was screamed when they whipped the Yanks.
But none of us will ever hear it.
Tho some folks mimic it well.
No soul alive can truly describe
the sound of the Rebel Yell.

 

[randy596]

Thought you'all might like to see this. My Dad was a kid visiting relatives in Gettysburg during summer
break in 1938. This was the medal he received

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Neat souvenir, I'm glad your family has kept it through the years.