The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-07-24
Soldiers' Dreams.

Oaks new York volunteer who passed
the night In tent of member of the third
Michigan infantry got up in tho morning
looking very glum and downhearted, and
when rallied about his fancied homesickness
he said
IL have only week to livel Ihad a
dream last night which has settled the busi-
ness for me aud lots of others. A week
from to-day battle will be fought aud
thousands will be slain. My regiment will
!ose over a hundred men, and I shall be
killed while charging across a field"
The men laughed at his moody spirit, but
he turned upon them and said:
"Your regiment will also be In the fight,
and whom the roll is called after the battle
you will have nothing to be merry over.
The two serseants who were in here last
night will be killed among the trees. I
saw them lying dead as 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 dremer was killed in full sight of every
man IN the Sd before the fight was an hour
old, and within twenty minutes after tho
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 temporarily
and trying to put in a little sleep, dreamed
that he went out on scout. A mile to
the right of our camp he came upon q log
Darn, and as 1t began to rain just then lie
sought shelter, or was about to, when he
heard voices and discovered that the place
was already occupied. After a little in
vesigation he ascertained that three confed
crate 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 1t at
once, having passed it dozen times The
Dreamer described the highway exactly as
u was, giving every hill and turn, and the
scout put such faith in the remainder of tho
dream that he took four soldiers, one of
whom was the dreamer, and set out for the
place. Three confederate scouts wcro
asleep in the straw, and were taken with
out shot being fired. The dream and its
results were known to hundreds of Sheri-
dan's cavalry, and has boon alluded to at
reunions.
The night before the cavalry fight at
brandy Station a trooper who slept as his
morse logged along In column dreamed that
certain captain In his regiment would bo
unilorsed In a fight the 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
lind the captain and relate his dream.
"Go to Texas with your croaking," was
all the thanks he received, but he had his
revenge. In the very first charge, next
aay' the captain was unhorsed Ivy the break
Ing OF the girth, and was pitched head
over-heels into patch of bria,s. Aa hc
struggled out shell killed his horse and
Two men, and one OF the flying pieces of
iron mashedthe captaln'sleft leg to a bloody
pup. He Is now resident of Ohio, and
his wooden leg ls indisputable evidence
that dreams sometimes come to pass.
While Mcclellan was besicging Yorktown
inc lun was not all on one side. The con-
federates had plenty of shot and shell, aud
they sent them out with intent to- XIII
One morning Michigan man who was in
inc trenches walked back to spot on
which three officers were eating breakfast
ana warned them that they were in great
peril. Onthe night previous he had dreamed
that he had looked at his watch and marked
that II was quarter to seven, when shell
hit the ground behind him and tore up the
earth In a terrible way. 1t was now twenty
minutes OF seven, and ho be ought tho Off
GERS to leave the spot at once. His earnest
manner induced them to comply, and they
had only reached cover when confederate
shell struck the earth where they had been
grouped and made an excavation into
which horse could have been rolled with
room to spare.
Three days boforo the affair at Kolly's
Ford corporal in the 9th Michigan caval-
ary dreamed that brother Of his, who was
sergeant In another company, would have
his horse killed In action, and would almost
mount dark bay horse with
a white nose Within five mlnutea both
horse and rider would be killed by shell.
This dream was related to moro than
score OF comrades fully two days before the
hight. Early In tho action the sergeants
horse was struck square in the forehead by
\ bullet, and dropped dead in his tracks.
1t was scarcely three minutes before
white horse, carrying blood-staincd sad
die, galloped up to the sergeant and halted.
lie remembered the dream, and refused to
mount the animal, and soon after picked
up black horse. The white e-nosed animal
was mounted by a second coporal IN an.
other regiment, and horse and rider wore
torn to fragments by ehell in full sight of
four companies Of the 9th. These things
may seem very foolish now, but there was
4 time when a soldiers dream saved Gen.
Kllpatrick's life; when dream changed
Clusters plals for three days; when dream
prevented Gen. Tolbert's camp from sur.
Prise and capture; and when dream gave
3cn Sheridan mo re accurate knowledge of
Early's forces than all the scouts.
HtlDt Thunder
A romantic young man asked his sweet
,cart to take walk with HIM by moonlight
IN tho river bluff in East Dubuque, Iowa.
She went gladly. When half way up tho
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