The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-07-29

hob bttVtO but ANU0I
Creek, a camp sentinel who was oil
dnty Temporarily and trying to put
in little sleep, dreamed that he
went out on a scout 4 mile To the
right of oui camp he came upon Il
log barn. aud as 1t began to rain just
then Le sought shelter, or was abou,
To-, when he heard voices aud discuv-
cred that tho place was already oc
cupied After little investigation
he discovered that threu Confederate
scents had taken up their quarters
n the night in the place, aud he
therefore moved away. The sen,iuel
awoke with such vivid remembrance
Of details that he asked perinl,slJn
to 20 over and confer with ono OF
the scouts. When tho log barn was
described to tLis mln he locaiel il
ut once, having passed il dozen
times. The dreamer described tho
highway exictly Us il was. giving
every hill and turn, and the scout
put such faith in the rem ,indor Of the
dream thlt he took fOlc sJllIors.
one OF whom Was tho dreamer, aud
set out for the place. Three CJnf,I.
ei ate scouts were asleep in the straw
aud were taken without SHOT baing
fired. The dream aud its results
were known t. hunIsels Of 'Shari.
dan cavalry, aud has been alluded
to ut reunions
Tue night before the cavalry fight
At Brandy Station, troJpor " 10
slept as his horse jagged along in
column drea ned that u certain Cap
tain in his regiment would be un-
horsei ia fight next day, aud while
rising from his fall would be wound.
ed i'll the left knee. Everything was
80 clear to the dreamer that ho took
opportunity to iiud the Captain aud
relate his drelm.
"GJ To Texas with your croaking.
was all the thanks he received, bat
he bad his revenge. Ia the worry
irst charge, next day, tho Captain
was unhorsei by tue breaking OF Che
girth, aui WAS pitched hsaI ovsr
heels into patch OF briays. Az he
struggled out shell billed hi3 horse
aud tSo men. aud ono of tha hying
pieces OF iron ml,had the Captain :
lett leg to o!oudy pulp lie 10
now Il resident OF . ,io, ani BIZ,
wooden Lex IL inii,pu'able cyilen .e
that dreams sometimes cJins h.
pass.
While VCIel'au was besiegins
Yorktown the fun was not all on one
:. side, The Couie ierttcs hal plruty
uf SHOT aud shell, an they sent tneu,
out With intent to kill. Oue mJrn .
ing Michigan utn who VAS in th,
# trenches walked blok 10 a spot
on which three officers were eating
breakfast AMI warned tucm that they
were III great peril. On the uish'
> previous he had dreamed that he
mad looked at his watch aud maj aei
that 1t was quarter Of seven, when
Il shell hit the ground b1hin him
and tore up the earth in 4 torrIb 8
way. IL was now twenty minute,
Df seven, aud he besought tho OH
GERS TO leave the spot at once. Rls
earuegt mauuer induce them 10
&c comply, aud they htI onlY reached
cover when u Confe lcrato shel,
struck the earth where they ha !
been grouped AMI made an exclvl.
tion iuto which horse could have
Il been rolled with room to spare.
Three days before the affair at
Kelly's Ford Corporal in tho Sixth
Michigan Cavalry dreamed that n
brother OF his, who was Sergeant
y III another company, would have his
horse killed in action aud would al
most immediately mount dark bay
r. horse with white nose. Within
five minutes both horse and rider
would be killed by a she'll This
:, dream was related to more than "A
. score Of comrades fully two days be-
fore tho fight. Early in the action
y the Sergeant's horse was struck
square in the forehead by bullet,
aud dropped dead in his tracks. 1t
was scarcely three minutes before a
white-faced horse, carrying a blood
stained saddle, galloped up TO the
Sergeant and halted. He remem-
bered the dream, aud refused to
mount the animal, and soon after
picked up black horse. Tho white.
nosed animal was mounted by Sec
'f ond corporal in another regiment,
:, aud horse and rider were torn to
a fragments by shell in full sight of
l. four companies of the Sixth These
& things may ssem very foolish nlw,
d but there was time when a soldier d
dream saved Gen. Fitzpatrick q Iife /;
when dream changed Clusters plans
1 for three days when dream pre-
d vented Gen. Tolbert's camp from a
i surprise aud capture aud when a
o dream gave Gen. Sheridan more ac
70 curate knowledge OF Early's forces
q than all the scouts
d We knew when IN the army sim
liar result of dream. When lying
y at Sandy Hook, Nd, 10 July 1861,
d we had in our company young man
of known courage. On the morning
le of July "a he came to the captain in
! command and said that be was sure
q that some OF tho company would be
r hurt very soon, as he had dreamed