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From tho Detroit Free Press.

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From tho Detroit Free Press
A week previous to the baltic OF
Fair Oaks a New York volunteer who
passed the night in tent Of Il member
of tho Third Michigan Intantry got uD
in tho morning looking very glun and
downheartcd, and when rallied about
his fancicd homcsickncss he said:
''I have only q week to live! had q
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 regiment will lose over q hundred
men, and shall be killed while charr
ing across n Held"
The mon laughed at his moody
spirit, but he turned upon them and
said:
"Yom 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 scrgcants who
were in hero last night will be killed
among the trees. J. saw them living
dead rs plainly as now sec 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 scrgcants
and SIX of their comrades were dead
in the woods, hit exactly where the
dreamer said thGy would be. More
than fifty men will bear witness to thc
truth Of this statement.
just before The battle of Cedar Creek
Il camp sentinel who was OIL duty tenn
porarily and trying to pitt in little
sleep, dreamed that he went out on q
scout. A mile to the right Of our
camp he came upon a log barn, and as
1t 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 a
little Investigation he asccrtaincd that
three Confederate scouts had taken up
their quarters for the night in the
place, and he therefore moved away.
The sentinel awokc with such q vivid
of details that he asked
permission to 60 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 it 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 ont
for the place. Three Confederate
scouts were asleep in tho straw, and
were taken without shot being fired.
The dream and its results were known
10 hundreds Of Shcridan's cavalry, and
has been alluded to at reunions.
The hight before the cavalry fight at
Brandy Station a trooper who slept us
his horse logged along in column
dreamed that certain captain in his
regiment would be umhorscd in q FIGHT
next day, and while rising from his
fall would be wounded in the left
knee. Everything was SO clear to the
dreamer that he took opportunity to
find the captain and relate his dream.
"Go TO Texas with your croakingp
was all the thanks he received, but he
had his revenge. In the very first
Charge, next day, the captain was un-
horscd by the breaking of the girth,
and was pitched head over heels into a
patch of briars. AS he shrugged out q
shell killed his horse and two men, and
one Of the flying pieces of iron masi;.
cd the captains left leg to bloody
pulp. lie is now q resident Of Ohio,
and his wooden leg is indisputablc cvi-
dence that dreams sometimes come TO
pass,
While Mcclellan was besioging
Yorktown the fun was not all OH ono
side. The Confcdcratcs had plenty of
shot and shell, and they sent them out
with intent to kill. One morning q
Michigan man who was in the trcnch-
cs walked back to spot on which
three officers were eating breakfast
and warned them that they were in
great peril. On the night previous he
had dreamed that he had looked at his
watch and marked that it was quar-
ter Of seven, when shell hit the
ground behind him and tore I'D the
earth in a terrible way. 1t was now
twenty minutes Of seven, and he be-
sought the officers to leave the spot at
once. His earnest manner induced
them to comply, and they had only
reached cover when q Confederate
shell struck the earth where thcy had
been grouped and made an excavation
into which horse could have been
rolled with room to spare.
Three days before the affair at Kcl-
!y's Ford q corporal in the Sixth
Michigan Cavalry dreamed that q
brother Of his, who was Il sergeant in
another company, would have his
horse killed in action, and would al
most Immediately mount II dark bay
horse with q white nose. Within five
minutes both horse and rider would
be killed by shell. This dream was
related to more than score of com
ralcs fully two days before the fight.
EARLY in the action the scrgcant's
horse was struck square in the fore
head by bullet, and dropped dead in
his tracks. ltwas scarcely three min
utes before white horse, CARRYING
blood-staincd saddle, 9allopcd up to
the sergeant and halted. lie rcmcn-
bcred the dream, and refused to mount
tho animal. and soon after picked up q
black horse. Tho whitc-noscd animal
was mounted by second corporal in
another regiment, and horse and rider
were torn to fragments by shell in
Mll sight Of four companies of the
Sivth Nl,ocn