The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-10-13


A Week previous TO the battle Of
Fair Oaks, New York volunteer,
who passed the night in the tent
Of q member OF the Third Mich
igan infantry, got up in the morn
ing looking glum and down.
hearted, and when rallied about
his fancied sickness he replied:
~ have only . week to live!
1 had dream last night which has
settled the business for me and
hundreds Of others. A week
from to-day a battle will be fought
and thousands Of people will be
slain. My regiment will lose over
q hundred men, and l will be killed
while charging across the field"
The men laughed at his moody
spirit, but he turned upon 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. saw them
lying dead as plainly as I now see
you. One will be shot in the
breast and the other in tho groin,
and dead men will be thick around
them"
The battle took place just q
week after. The dreamer was
killed in full sight or every man
in the Third before the tight vas
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 was off duty
temporarily, and trying to put in
q little sleep, dreamed that he
went out on scout. A mile to
the right of our camp he came
upon 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
q little Investigation he ascer-
tanned that three Confederate
scouts had taken up their quarters
for the night in the place, and he
therefore moved away. The sen.
tinel awoke with such q vivid re-
membrance Of details that he
asked 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
IL q 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 out for
the place. q Three ! Confederate
scouts were asleep In the straw "
and were taken without . shot
being fred, The dream and its
results were known to hundreds
Of Sheridan's cavalry, and has
been alluded to at reunions.
The night before the cavalry
fight at Brandy Station, . trooper
who slept as his horse joggeG
along in column, dreamed that 9
certain captain 10 his regimen,
would - nphorsed IN 4 dkht mex
day, and while rising from his fal
would be wounded in the LEFT knee
Everything was % clear to tn,
| dreamer that he took An opportu
nifty TO find the captain and relate
his dream.
"Go to Texas with your croak.
| ing !" was al the thaaks he received
but he xas rsvsnged. In the YER,
frst charge the next day the captain
was unhorsed BY the breaking Of tn
girth, and he was pitched head owe
heels into . patch Of briArs. Az b
struggled out she'll killed his hors
and tWs men. and one Of the Ayinl
pieces of iron mashed the captain
left leg to . bloody pulp. He h nov
. resident Of Ohio, a6d his woodel
leg. il sindisputable evidence tha,
dreams sometimes come to pass.
While Mcclellan was besiegin5
| yorktown the fun was not ell OF
one side. The Confederates hal
plenty q shot and ihell, snd the,
1 sent them ont with intent to kill
! One morning > Michigan man VII,
was Id the trenches walked back t.
the spot on which three officer
we're eating. breakfast and varnet
then tk1E they we're il great peril
| On the night previouS he had dream
ed that. - ,hsd looked n hin watcl
and marked that it was . quarter o
seven, when . shell HE tie grouns
behind him and tore up the Garth il
. terrible way. Il was now twenty
minutes Of seven, and he besough
the officers to leave the place .