The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-08-09
VISITED BY GHOST.
A PROMISE MADE IN LIFE KEPT AFTER
DEATH-wHAT cHE SPIRIT SAID.
"D d you ever STE a ghost ?''

"D you ever STE ghost ?''
''No ;;
did you ever see any one who had seen
a ghost"
81 can't say that ever did," The report
eT replied.
Whereupon the gentleman said that in
the person of one of the officers of the city
Government could be seen one who had
once had a veriJable interview with spirit
from the other world. The reporter visit
ed the gentleman.
"Nes. sir" he said to the reporter, sit is
the truth. l did once see a ghost, or have
an interview with "A spnis. At least, /
think did. l may have been dreaming
/ don know. But IL was a most remark
able, a most inexplicable dieam-What you
might call prophetic dream, that was
fulfilled in every detail in most eXJraOr-
dinaiy manner. And | don't tbiuk IL was
a dream.
ut was at the time of the war. l was
on the Confederate side in the war, a soldier
in the First Maryland Cavalry. In the
same company with me was a gentleman
from California, whom you may call Cop
lesion. I'd rather you wouldn't publish
his real name. He was a splendid fellow,
aud before long we became very intimate,
aud gradually grew 10 be most devoted
friends. He was the bTaycst of men, but
at The same time unusually warm hearted
aud affectiOnate, and ON affection for each
other was something unusual among men.
Zone day we were together IN pretty
hot fight near Greenland Gap, Hardy conn
~, Va, duIIng Gen. Nm. <. Jones raid,
and, as we had no artillery with us, our
regiment was dismOunted and detailed to
storm a church in which body of the en-
emy had eutl enched themselves. 1t was a
nasty piece of work, and The prospects weie
Slim Of getting back alive. As We went at
it Copleston turned to me and said -
Look here, old fellow, let's promise each
other that if one of Us is killed without a
chance TO say good by, he will come again
to see The other, if such thing is possible.
| understood him and promised. We got
off this time without much damage, bur il
was uude. stood between us that the agree
ment was lasting.
"Not long after this We we've separated.
! He was sent off with a detail for scouting
work upon The Mississippi, aud before he
got back | was captured 10y AveTill at
Mocriicld, after the Chambersburg raid.
They seut me to Camp Chase, near COlum-
bia, Ohio, and heIe l lay for long time
with fifteen or twenty thousand other pIis
oneis, hearing little OF nothing Of the men
on the other side of the Potomac, aud .hen
only from the hew prisoners when they
we,e brought into camp. OF COplestOn
we heard LJthing at all.
'In Camp Chase we lived in big barracks,
! about 800 men in bauack. Ia the one III
/ which / was most of the men were Mary
/ landeis of our own command. We slept
/ in hunks around the room, and the room
was heated by three big stoves. One night
! ] was sitting by the stove nearest the door,
! thinking. Ii was late, and all the Others
/ were ia their hunks asleep. l sat there
alone for some time, looking at the fire and
+ lost in thought. Suddenly | felt impelled
to look up, aud there, just la front OF me,
on the other side Of tie stove and between
( il and the door, stood Coplestou."
"Nere you alarmed at all ?''
NO | WAS not alarmed, only greatly
SUI YriSed. There was nothing TO alarm.
4 1t was only Copleston, dressed III the same
/ gray suit and black felt hat. thought OI
Course, at the instani. that somehow be
had been captured and brought prisoner
to the camp, and had only just learned
3 where | was. | exclaimed, why, COple
stOn, when were you brought in - aud tried
to rise up and shake hands with him.
could not move.
! "CuplestOn looked at ne sadly for 8
moment and then said, NO [ was moi
brought here; don't you remember on
agreement p
..Gleat heavens - 1 exclaimed, 'wer,
J yOu-?
Yes be said, 4 was killed to-day.
I He then went on and told me all about It
, One day be and one other of our meu wer'
J surrounded in a house near LufaY, M Pag,
! county, Va, by a squad of Federals, auC
J after little fight, in which COpleStOu WA
wouuded in the leg, the two were capture,
and taken into the enemy's camp. The
were held fnr a few days, and we're thei
7 sentenced 60 be sho as an act of retaliation
for some sins laid at MOsby ; door. y ser
geant's guaid took them into the woods
ald with some touch Of pity offered TO le
them run the gauntlet, Indian fashion
The other man accepted this slight chauc
/ OF escape, hut was shot as Ge ran. Cople
ston refused 90 move. and Was killed wheu
he sat on lie grnudd.
''Al this, sir, / assure you, was told M
by this strange visitor. As he finished b,
said Should there ever be any other Oc
cdsion for me to see you, 1 viii come ant
then disappeared, not going out by tin
door but simply fading away. ! was, q
course. strongly moved, bui shortly ate
that I retired to my bnuk. The mex
+ morning told the men in the mess of thu
. ciIcumsl auce, and was of cOuIse laughed
! at.
Three weeks afterwards fresh p, iSoner
I were brought in from The Army nf Virgin
IA, who, With other news, told OF Copies
tons death, just as had already heard q
IL from himself Tie men of the mess Il
longer laughed at my story.
II do not pretend 10 explain this at al
I thiak il can't be explained. | am nc
Superstitious, | think, aud, rs ! said before
may have dreamed i. but even then it woul
be a very strange dream. .-Baitimorc AmeI
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