The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-03-25
NUMBER 10.
FIVE SOLDIERS DREAMS.

A week previous to the battle of Fair oaks
New York volunteer. who passed the
night with member Of the Sd Michigan in
tantry, got up i'm the morning looking vely
glum and down-hearted, and when rallied
about his fancied home-sickness, he said:
4 have only week 20 live I had a dream
last night which settled the business for me
and lots Of others. 4 week from to-day a
battle will be fought and thousands will be
slain. My regiment will lose over hundred
men and / shall be killed while charging
across a field The men laughed at his
moody spirit, but he turned upon them and
said "Your regiment viii also he 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 here last
night viii be killed among the trees. I saw
them lying dead as plainly as I now see You.
One viii be shot in the breast and the other
in the groin. and men will be thick around
them"
The battle took place just a week after
The dreamer was killed in full sight of every
man in the Sd before the fight was an hour
old. and within twenty minutes after the two
seTCeants and six Of their comrades were
dead in the woods, hit exactly where the
dreamer said they would be More than ff-
ty men viii bear witness to the truth of this
statement.
a SENTINEL PREDICTS CAPTURE OF CONFED-
CRATES.
just before the battle of Cedar Creek a
camp sentinel, who was of duty temporarily
and trying tC put in a little sleep, dreamed
that he went out Oh a scOgt. 4 mile to the
right of our camp he came upon a log barn,
and as it began TO rain just then he sought
shelter, or was about to, when he heard vol
/ ces and discovered thar the place was already
occupied. After a little investigation he as
certained that three Confederate scouts had
taken up their quarters for the night in :he
place, and he therefore moved away.
The sentinel awOke with such a vivid re-
membrance of the details that he asked per
mission to goover and confer with the scouts.
/ When the log barn was described to this
man he located it at once, having passed it q
4 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 his 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, and were
taken without a shot being fired. The
dream and its results were known by hun
dreds Of klan's cavalry, and has been
. alluded to at reunions.
. A CAVALRYNIAS SAVES HIS EROTHEE's : LIFE
Three days before the affair at Kelley's
Ford a corporal in the 9th Michigan cavalry
| dreamed that a brother of his, who was q
sergeant in another company, would have his
horse killed in action and would almost i'm.
mediately mount a 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 a score OF
comrades fully two days before the fight.
Early in the action the sergeaut's hCrst
was struck fair in the forehead by bullet
and dropped dead in his tracks. 1t Wa
hardly three minutes before a white nose,
horse carrying q blood-stained saddle, gal
loped up 10 the Sc erCeantaud halted. Here
membered the dream and refused to noun
the animal, and soon after picked up a biacl
horse. The white-uosed animal was picl1e,
up by a second corporal in another regiment
and horse and rider were torn into trag
ments by a shell in full sight Of four cOmpa
MES of the 9th.
THREE OFFICERS WARNED AND EsCAPI
DEATH.
While Mcclellan was besiegiug yorktown
the fun was not all on one side. The Con
federates had plenty OF shot and SHE'LL ant
they sent them out with intent to kill.
one morning Michigander who was il
the trenches, walked back to spot o.
which three officers were eating their break
fast and warned them that they were il
peril. On the night previous he had dream
ed that he had looked at his watch and re
marked that it was a quarter of seven O'Clock
when a shell Lit the ground behind him an
tore up the earth in a terrible manner. ]
was now twenty minutes of seven O'Clock
and he bes0ught the officer to leave the spC
, at once. His earnest manner induced theI
to comply, and they had only reached cove
when a Confederate shell struck the cart
where they had been sitting and made an e.
cavation into which a horse could have bee
! rolled, and have room to spare.
r TOLD CAPTAIN HOW he WOULD b
, WOUNDED.
The night before the cavalry fight at Brs
, dy's Station trooper, who slept as hi
; horse logged along in column dreamed tn;
a certain captain in his regiment would
r. unhorsed in a fight the next day, and VIII
7 rising from his fall would be wounded in IL
h left knee.
+ Everything was so clear to the dream
e that he took opportunity to find the CAPITA
: and relate the dream.
'Go to Texas with your croaking" - vi
all the thanks he received, but he had j
O revenge. In the first charge, the next da
o the captain was unhorsed by the breaking
, the girth. and was pitc he'd. head over heC
t, into a patch Of bT iers. As he struggled o
I a shell killed his horse and two men, and o.
o of the fyins pieces of iron mashed the ca
IS tain's leg to a bloody pulp. He is now
: resident Of Ohio, and his wooden leg is
B disputable evidence that dreams sometim
5, come to pass.
~ SOME OTHER DREAMS.
y These things may seem very foolish no
Ie but there was a time when a dream saw
er General Kilpatrick's life; when a dres
e. prevented General Tolbert's camp from 81
ne render and capture, and when a dream ga
70 General Sheridan more accurate knoT
le edge of Early's forces than all the scouts.
4 THE STRONGEST MAN LIVING Jose
rk POSpischiU who is now a prisoner in