The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-07-13
SOLDIERS DREAMS.

A WEEK previous to the battle of
IA Fair Oaks o New York volunteer
who passed the night in tent of
member of the Third Michigan Infantry
got up in the morning looking very
glum and down-hearted, and when ral-
lied about his fancied homesickness he
said:
81 have only week to live had
a dream last night which has settled the
business for me and lots of others. A
week from to-day battle will be fought
and thousands will be slain. My regi-
ment will lose over hundred men, and
i shall be killed while charging across
field.'
The men laughed at his moody spirit,
but he turned on them and said:
Your regiment will also be in the
fight, and when the roll is called after
the battle you will have nothing to be
merry over. The two sergeants who
were in here last night will be killed
among the trees. 1 saw them lying
dead as plainly as now see you. One
will be shot in the breast, and the other
in the groin, and dead men will be thick
around them"
The battle took place just week after.
The dreamer was killed in full sight of
every man in the Third before the fight
was an hour old, and within twenty
minutes after the two sergeants and six
of their comrades were dead in the
woods, hit exactly where the dreamer
said they would be. More than fifty
men will bear witness to the truth of
this statement.
Just before the battle of Cedar Creek
camp sentinel who was off duty tempor-
arily and trying to put in little sleep,
dreamed that he went out on scout.
A mile to the right of our camp he came
upon a log barn, and as it began to rain
just then he sought shelter, or was about
to, when he heard voices and discovered
that the place was already occupied.
After little investigation he ascertain
ed that three Confederate scouts had
taken up their quarters for the night in
the place, and he therefore moved away.
The sentinel awoke with such vivid
remembrance of details that he asked
permission to go over and confer with
one of the scouts When the log barn
was described to this man he located it
at once, having passed it dozen times.
The dreamer described the highway
exactly as if was, giving every hill and
turn, and the scout put such faith in the
remainder of the dream that he took
four soldiers, one of whom was the
dreamer, and set out for the place.
Three Confederate scouts were asleep in
the straw, and were taken without a
shot being fired. The dream and its
results were known to hundreds of
Sheridan's cavalry, and has been alluded
totat reunions.
The night before the cavalry fight at
Brandy Station a trooper who slept as
bis horse logged along in column dream
ed that certain Captain in his regiment
would be unhorsed in fight next day,
and while rising from his fall would be
wounded in the left knee. Everything
was 80 clear to the dreamer that he took
opportunity to find the Captain and
relate his dream.
$50 to Texas with your croakingl"
was all the thanks he received, but he
had his revenge. In the very first
charge, next day, the Captain was un-
horsed by the breaking of the girth, and
was pitched head over heels into patch
Of briars. AS he struggled out a shell
killed his horse and two men, and one
of the flying pieces Of iron mashed the
Captains left leg to bloody pulp. He
is now a resident of Ohio, and his wood