Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-04-30

ana the other in the groin, and dead
men will be thick around them."-
The battle took place as predicted,
just one week after that dream, and,
as the dreamer had declared, he
was killed in full sight of every
member of the Fifth, before the
| fight was an hour old, and within
twenty minutes after the sergeants
and six of their comrades were dead
in the woods, exactly where the
dreamer said they would be. More
than fifty men bear witness to the
truth of this statement.
A short time before the battle Of
Cedar Creek, camp sentinel was
off duty temporarily, and trying to
put In little sleep, dreamed that he
went out on a scout. His dream
showed him that one mile to the
right of the camp he came upon a
barn, and, as it began to rain just
then, he sought shelter within, but
halted when he discovered before en-.
tering that the place was already
occupied. After silent investigation,
he ascertained that two Confederate
scouts had taken up their quarters in
the building, and he cautiously
moved away as silently as he had
come. The sentinel awoke with such
a vivid remembrance of the dream
that he asked permission to go over
and confer with one of our scouts.
When the barn was reached, he To-
Gated it at once, having passed it a
dozen times before. The dreamer
described the highway exactly as it
was, giving every hill and turn, and
the scout put faith in the remainder
of the dream. He took four soldiers
one of whom was the dreamer, and
set out for the place. The Confcder-
ate scouts were found asleep in the
straw of the barn, and were taken
without the firing of single shot.
This dream, with its results, was
known to hundreds of Sheridan's
calvary, and it has been frequently
alluded to in the reunions of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
On the night before the cavalry
fight at Brandy Station, trooper
who slept on his horse, as calvary
men were apt to do when exhausted,
as he logged along in the column,
dreamed that certain captain in his
regiment would be unhorsed in a
fight on the following day, and
while rising from his fall would be
wounded in the left knee. Every
thing in the dream was so clear to the
dreamer that he seized the first op-
portunity to find the captain and re-
late his dream to him. But he was
laughed at. The soldier had his re-
venge. In the very first charge, on
the following day, this captain was
unhorsed by the breaking of girth,
and pitched headlong into a patch of
briars. AS he struggled out, shell
killed his horse, and one ofthe flying
pieces of iron smashed the captains
leg to bloody pulp. He is now a
resident of Ohio, and his wooden leg
is evidence that dreams sometimes
come true.
1t frequently happens in engage
ments during war that the fun is
not always on one side. Much de-
pends upon the amount of powder,
shot and shell in the magazine, and
the side having the most Of these
generally has the most fun. 1t was
when Gen. McCle)lans wa besieging
Yorktown that the Confederates had
plenty of munitions of war, includ-
ing shot and shell, and sent them
out with murderous intent. One
morning Michigan man, who was
In the trenches, walked back to a
spot on which three officers were
eating their breakfast, and warned
them that they were in great peril.
On the previous night he had
1rnn n1 hof hn To- nt l.; -
and marked that it was al
quarter of seven, when a shell hit
the ground and tore up the earth in
terrible way. 1t lacked twenty
minutes to seven O'Clock when he
spoke to the officers, and he besought
them to leave the spot at once. His
earnest manner induced them to
comply, and they had just reached
cover when Confederate shell
struck the ground where they had
been grouped, and made an excava-
ton, into which a horse could have
been rolled with much room to spare
Three days before the affair at
Kelly's Ford, a corporal in the Sixth
brother Of his, who was a sergeant
in another company, would have his
horse killed i'm an action and would
almost Immediately mount a dark
bay horse with white nose. Within
five minutes both horse and rider
would be killed, according to the
dream. This dream was related to
a score of comrades two days before
the fight. Early in the action the
horse was struck fairly in the fore
head by bullet, and dropped dead
in its tracks. 1t was scarcely three
minutes before a hay horse with a
white nose, carrying a blood-stained
saddle, galloped up to the sergeant
and halted. He remembered the
dream, and refused to mount the
animal. Soon after he picked up a
black horse. The white nosed ami
NAL was mounted by second cor
poral i'm another regiment, and horse
and rider we're torn to fragments in
sight of four companies 0fthe Sixth.
These things may seem very foolish
now, but there was a time when a
soldiers dream saved General Kill
patrick's life, when a dream changed
General Custer's plans for three days,
and when dream gave General
Sheridan more actual knowledge of
Early's forces than all the scouts
could do.
A BROTHER of Bishop Clark was
one of the wittiest men alive, 1t
ran in the family. He once went to
see one of his parishioners, lady
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