Notes
notes introduction 1. for the definitive study of the Confederate battle flag and its legacy, see John m. Coski, The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem (Cambridge, mA: Harvard University Press, 2005). 2.H.Allen smith,The Rebel Yell: Being a Carpetbagger’s Attempt to Establish the Truth Concerning the Screech of the Confederate Soldier plus Lesser Matters Appertaining to the Peculiar Habits of the South (garden City, nY: Doubleday, 1954). 3. for an oft-quoted passage on the lost Rebel yell, see shelby foote, The Civil War: A Narrative, vol. 3, Red River to Appomattox (new York: vintage, 1986), 1046. in many respects, the notion of a “lost”yell dovetails with the larger myth of the lost Cause. on the lost Cause, see Thomas l. Connelly, The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society (new York: Knopf,1977); gaines m.foster,Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865–1913 (new York: oxford University Press, 1987), esp. chaps. 8, 9, 10; gary W. gallagher and Alan T. nolan, eds., The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (bloomington: indiana University Press, 2000); AlanT.nolan,Lee Considered:General Robert E.Lee and Civil War History (Chapel Hill: University of north Carolina Press, 1991); and William garrett Piston, Lee’s Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History (Athens: University of georgia Press, 1987). 4.see Allen Walker Read,“The Rebel Yell as a linguistic Problem,”American Speech 36.2 (may 1961): 83–92. 5. The Rebel Yell Lives! CD, script by s. Waite Rawls iii (Richmond, vA: museum of the Confederacy, 2008). 6. Alice Randall, Rebel Yell: A Novel (new York: bloomsbury, 2009). 7.Terryl W. elliott,“Dammit, Holler ’em Across!”:The History of the Rebel Yell, 2nd ed. (independence, mo: Partisan Press, 2011), 16; monte Akers, The Accidental Historian: Tales of Trash and Treasure (lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2010), 55–70. 8.J.W.Dubose,“The Rebel Yell,”birmingham [Al] Age-Herald,1897,repr.,fayette- 164 / notes to Pages 1–8 ville [nC] Observer, December 6, 1897, 264A; Ambrose bierce, “A little of Chickamauga ,” san francisco Examiner, April 24, 1898 [as “Chickamauga”], 1898, repr., The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, vol. 1 (new York: neale Publishing, 1909), 277. Chapter 1 1. Quoted in Drew gilpin faust, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (baton Rouge: louisiana state University Press, 1988), 7–8. 2. Anne sarah Rubin, A Shattered Nation:The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861– 1868 (Chapel Hill: University of north Carolina Press, 2005), 20; Paul Quigley, Shifting Grounds:Nationalism and the American South, 1848–1865 (oxford: oxford University Press,2012),146; michaelT.bernath,Confederate Minds:The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South (Chapel Hill: University of north Carolina Press, 2010), 231; Christian mcWhirter, Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of north Carolina Press, 2012), 65; faust, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism, 8. 3. Rubin, A Shattered Nation, 23, 49. 4. William Howard Russell,“‘The Civil War in America’: from our special Correspondent ,” london Times, July 10, 1861, 5. 5. ibid. 6. William Howard Russell, My Diary North and South, vol. 2 (london: bradbury and evans, 1863), 26. 7. Read,“The Rebel Yell as a linguistic Problem,”84.The Oxford English Dictionary concurs with Read, citing fremantle’s memoir as the first published record of the phrase “rebel yell.” see “rebel yell, n.,” The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., vol. 13, ed. J. A. simpson and e. s. C. Weiner (oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), 300; Arthur James lyon fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States: April–June, 1863 (1863; repr., new York: John bradburn,1864),259.Read hunted down many of the earliest accounts of the Rebel yell, and i am indebted to his fine article for several bibliographical references. 8. Catherine C. Hopley, Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War, vol. 2 (london: Chapman and Hall, 1863), 21–22. 9. fitzgerald Ross, “A visit to the Cities and Camps of the Confederate states, 1863–64,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 96 (December 1864): 656. for Ross’s booklength memoir,see fitzgerald Ross, A Visit to the Cities and Camps of the Confederate States (london: William blackwood and sons, 1865). His description of the Rebel yell occurs on page 40 of the text. 10. Quoted in North Carolina...
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