Daily globe., 1880-08-08
REMARKABLE DREAMS OF SOL
DIERS.

A week previous to the battle of Fair
| Oaks New York volunteer who passed
the night in the tent of member OF the
Third Michigan Infantry got up In the
morning looking very glum and down
cied hOmesickness he said:
II have only week to live! had a
dream last night that has settled the bus
mess for me and lots others. A week
from to-day battle will be fought and
thousands will be slain. My regiment
will lose over one hundred men, and I
shall be killed while charging across a
field"
The men laughed at his moody spirits,
but turned upon them and said:
"Your regiment will also be in tie
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. 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 af-
ter. The dreamer was killed in full
sight of every man in the Third before
the battle was an hour old, and within
twenty minutes after the two sergeants
and six of their comrades lay dead in the
woods, hit exactly where the dreamer
said they would. More than fifty men
will bear witness to the truth of this
statement.
Just before the battle of Cedar Creek
a camp sentinel was off duty temporarily
and trying to put IN a.httle sleep, dream
ed that he went out on scout. A mile
to the right of our camp he came upon a
long barn, and as it began to rain about
then he sought shelter, or was about to
when he heard voices and discovered that
the place was already occupied. After a
little investigation he found that three
Confederate scouts haa 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 60
over and confer with one of the scouts.
When the long barn was described to
this man he located it at once, having
passed it dozen times. The dreamer
described the highway exactly as 1t 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 ana were taken
without shot being fired. The dream
and its results were known to hundreds
OF Sheridan's cavalry, and has been al
lu1ed to at reunions.
The night before the cavalry fight at
Brandy Station trooper who slept as
his horse logged along in column dreamed
that certain captain in his regiment
would be unhorsed in a fight next day,
and while rising from his fall would be
wounded in the left knee. Everything
was so clear to tee dreamer that he took
opportunity to find the captain and relate
his dream.
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was all the thanks he received, but he
had his revenge. In the first charge, next
day, the captain was unhorsed by the
breaking of the girth, and was pitched
head over heels into patch of briars. As
he struggled out shell killed his horse
and mashed the captains left leg TO a
bloody pulp. He Is now resident of
Ohio, and his wooden leg Is indisputable
evidence that dreams sometimes come to
pass.
While Mcclellan was besieging York
town the fun was not all On one side.
The Confederates had plenty of shot and
shell, and they sent them out with intent
to kill. Ole morning a Michigan man
who was in the trenches walked back to
a spot where three officers were eating
breakfast and warned them that they
were In great peril. On the night previ-
GUS he had dreamed that he had looked
at his watch and marked that it was a
quarter of seven, when a shell hit the
ground behind him and tore up the earth
in terrible way. 1t was now twenty
minutes of seven, ana he oesought the
officers to leave the spot at once. His
earnest manner induced them to comply,
and they had only reached cover when a
Confederate shell struck the ground
where they had been grouped and made
an excavation into which horse rolled
with room to spare.
Three days before the affair at Kelly S
Ford, corporal in the Sixth Michigan
Cavalry, dreamed that brother of his,
who was a sergeant IN another company,
would have his horse killed in action, and
would almest Immediately mount bay
horse with white nose. Within five
minutes both horse and rider would be
killed by shell. The dream was re-
lated to more than score of comrades
fully two days before the fight. Early
in the action the sergeant s horse was
struck square IN the forehead by bullet
and tell dead in his track. 1t was scarce
| ly three minutes before bay horse car
rying blood stained saddle, galloped
up to the sergeant and halted. he re:
membered th. dream and refused to
mount the animal, and soon after picked
up black horse. The white-nosed an1-
NAL was mounted by second corporal
in another regiment, and horse and rider
were torn to fragments by she'll in full
sight of four companies of the Sixth.
| These things may seem very foolish
now but there was time when sol
dier's dream saved Gen. Kilpatricks life
when dream changed Clusters plans
for three days; when dream prevented
Gen. Tolberts camp from surprise and
capture; and when dream gave General
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