Introduction and Entrance Hell On The Wabash

The Fort McHenry Fife and Drum Corps Marches into the fort during the 2012 Civil War tattoo ceremony at Fort Mchenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. The tune is "Hell on the Wabash."

[@fishingtheeast4898]

At that time period hearing the drums n fife most ereie and scary sound to be hearing from a distance

[@ClergetMusic]

The carnyx is up there too:

[@donl5941]

You'd think that big dork in the back would know how to march in step.

[@donovangarbarino2634]

Don L lowkey hurts me to watch when some ones out of step 😂

[@fatjack6142]

Wouldn't want to see big man in the rear coming across the battlefield at Me.

[@arfyego0682]

I got goosebumps! Dramatic entrances 101 xD

[@charlmaynehawthorne9372]

This great, presentation, I love it the spirit of America, at finest.

[@zappa1025]

This gave me goosebumps. It was awesome.

[@carltonferrell4062]

I do civil war reenactments with the Iron Brigade and it's our marching tune, I still get goosebumps when they play it

[@robertweber567]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@steveshalot7714]

Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up!

[@robertweber567]

F'n beautiful!

[@panzerwolf494]

Man, is that Lurch in the rear rank?

[@Schutzstafel1983]

Cheer'um on

[@TheFeuillesMortes]

Me Too!!

[@Engineer1897]

Bass percussion is great. Tempo needs to go up slightly.

[@charlmaynehawthorne9372]

Color Guard.

[@liamstatz2429]

Black hats

[@oldnosey4961]

it's them damn black hatted fellers!

[@mr.pickles810]

I heard the johnny shot their hats off because they tought the black hats were tall but they just shot the hats off them and they considered them an invincible force. Not sure how true that story is but you go to gettysburg and other areas the black hat brigade was they got few hats with holes

[@Ferich11]

Nice but too slow from the myriad of other times Ive seen wabash with same step.

[@arfyego0682]

It's actually correct(i think). They're doing it in the War of 1812 style, and for some reason back then they liked to use slower tempos for marches until they realized armies were getting places too slowly xd

[@shortfusedfox2593]

@@arfyego0682 It had nothing to do with that. I triple-dog-dare anybody to march shoulder-to-shoulder and lock-stepped at anything faster than 120bpm *and* keep it clean. It's not gonna happen. Though, you're right. This is about 90bpm, and is entirely correct for pretty much any line-infantry period. Quote Infantry Tactics, 1825, School of the Soldier--Part III: "253. (sic) Common time, ninety steps in a minute. Plummet, seventeen inches and thirty-eight hundredths's (sic) of an inch in length. 354. Quick time, one hundred and twenty steps in a minute. Plummet, nine inches and seventy-eight hundredth's (sic) of an inch in length. [...] 358. With the exception of the oblique step, the quick time is that which will generally be ordered in all interior movements of battalions, and other corps, as in wheelings, filings, and successive formations generally." This was the norm in the 1820's but I'd humbly argue it was also the norm for three decades before and perhaps another two after.