The Rebel Yell: 40 Civil War Soldier Memoirs
Forty Confederate Eyewitness Accounts of Battle, Memory, Defeat, and Southern MythmakingBy John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, George Cary Eggleston, James Longstreet, John Singleton Mosby, Edward M. Boykin, Arthur Peronneau Ford, Marion Johnstone Ford, Isaac Hermann, Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, William Watson, Daniel P. Smith, James Carson Elliott, Thomas D. Duncan, David E. Johnston, Francis Warrington Dawson, John A. Sloan, La Salle Corbell Pickett, Henry Lane Stone, Basil Wilson Duke, Wayland Fuller Dunaway, Rufus H. Peck, Edward Alexander Moore, Raphael Semmes, Cole Younger, William Meade Dame, Caleb Huse, William G. Stevenson, Carlton McCarthy, Samuel Gibbs French, Richard L. Maury, J. Wilkinson, Alfred J. Vaughan, Luther W. Hopkins, John Porter Fort, John Milton Hubbard, John Call Dalton, James H. Wood, Frank M. Myers
Length317h 23m
About this audiobook
The Rebel Yell gathers forty Civil War soldier memoirs into a capacious, often contradictory record of Confederate military experience. Ranging from formal recollection and campaign narrative to cavalry adventure, naval testimony, prison memory, and reflections on defeat, the volume illuminates both battlefield immediacy and the retrospective shaping of war. Accounts of major operations, irregular warfare, command, endurance, and home-front loyalties reveal the variety of literary registers through which veterans made meaning of conflict. Its contributors include prominent commanders, staff officers, raiders, sailors, and enlisted observers, among them figures associated with Virginia, the Army of Northern Virginia, the western theater, and Confederate maritime service. Their memoirs belong to the broad postwar culture of veteran commemoration and, in places, to the interpretive currents later termed the Lost Cause. Read critically, these voices expose not only martial ideals and regional identities but also the silences, justifications, and contested memories embedded in Confederate remembrance. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking multiple perspectives rather than a single authoritative Civil War narrative. Students, historians, and general readers will find an instructive comparative archive of styles, experiences, and historical claims. By placing disparate memoirs in dialogue, The Rebel Yell encourages careful attention to memory, ideology, and the enduring power of personal testimony.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length317 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders
2General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous "Marble Man"
3The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke
4PART I LEE'S EARLY LIFE
5I INTRODUCTION
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6II THE LEES OF VIRGINIA
7III GENERAL "LIGHT-HORSE HARRY" LEE
8IV STRATFORD
9V LEE'S EARLY MANHOOD AND CAREER IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY
10VI LEE AND SCOTT
11VII LEE RESIGNS
12VIII HIS RECEPTION AT RICHMOND
13IX LEE IN 1861
14X THE WAR BEGINS
15XI LEE'S ADVANCE INTO WESTERN VIRGINIA
16XII LEE'S LAST INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP MEADE
17PART II IN FRONT OF RICHMOND
18I PLAN OF THE FEDERAL CAMPAIGN
19II JOHNSTON IS WOUNDED
20III LEE ASSIGNED TO THE COMMAND — HIS FAMILY AT THE WHITE HOUSE
21IV LEE RESOLVES TO ATTACK
22V STUART'S "RIDE AROUND McCLELLAN"
23PART III ON THE CHICKAHOMINY
24I THE TWO ARMIES
25II LEE'S PLAN OF ASSAULT
26III THE BATTLE OF THE CHICKAHOMINY
27IV THE RETREAT
28V RICHMOND IN DANGER — LEE'S VIEWS
29VI LEE AND McCLELLAN — THEIR IDENTITY OF OPINION
30PART IV THE WAR ADVANCES NORTHWARD
31I LEE'S PROTEST
32II LEE'S MANOEUVRES
33III LEE ADVANCES FROM THE RAPIDAN
34IV JACKSON FLANKS GENERAL POPE
35V LEE FOLLOWS
36VI THE SECOND BATTLE OF MANASSAS
37PART V LEE INVADES MARYLAND
38I HIS DESIGNS
39II LEE IN MARYLAND
40III MOVEMENTS OF THE TWO ARMIES
41IV THE PRELUDE TO SHARPSBURG
42V THE BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG
43VI LEE AND McCLELLAN — THEIR MERITS IN THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN
44VII LEE AND HIS MEN
45VIII LEE PASSES THE BLUE RIDGE
46IX LEE CONCENTRATES AT FREDERICKSBURG
47X THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG
48XI FINAL MOVEMENTS OF 1862
49XII THE YEAR OF BATTLES
50XIII LEE IN DECEMBER, 1862
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