The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-04-25

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|E11ME 8 called. the regi-
mental command
ers to report to him in person. When
Col. FahnestOck, of the Eighty sixth
Illinois, had come up to the tree where
Coi- Dan was sitting, he said: We are
going to charge the rebel works in our
front. Addressing Col. Oscar l.. Har-
mon. of the One Hundred and Twenty
fifth Illinois. he said: You will COM
mand the first line To Col. Fahne-
stock he said. You will lead the second
line, and when you carry the works
shove down the boys OH the rebels,
and deploy your regiment to the left
and occupy the works
Addressing Col. c. J. Dilworth, of
the Eighty-fifth Illinois, McCOok said,
You will lead the skirmish line with
your regiment He directed Capt.
SnodgraSs, of the Twenty-second In
diana, to lead the third line and Col.
Clancy. of the Fifty y-secOnd Ohio, to
lead the fourth line, the lines to follow
each other Mt intervals of ten PAGES.
Col. Fahnestock returned to his regi-
ment. called the officers together, gave
them instructions, ordered the men to
load at will, and not to fire gun until
we reached the enemy's works. We
were then lying down in the order as
signed. waiting for the signal gun.
while waiting, Col. FahnestOck went
to little cluster of bushes where Col.
Harmon and Capt. Fellows were sit
ting, i'm front of the One Hundred and
Twepty-fifth Illinois. The three knelt
OF sat down facing each other to en-
gage i'll conversation. Col. FahnestOck
up his letters. Col. Harmon asked him
whether he thought we would carry
the works. FahnestOck replied he
thought not; that we had waited 700
long; we had too far to run, but
he declared if we failed to carry the
works, he would surrender before the
men should return over the open field
across which we would have to charge.
Col Harmon agreed with him as to
surrender, but said he thought we
could carry the works. Col. Fahne-
stock replied that he had been sick all
night; that he had dream in which he
was in terrible battle, but got out
safe. Col. Harmon said that he had
had dream, in which he was fighting
copperheads i'm the North; that he then
became engaged in a big battle. but
did not know how it terminated. Capt.
Fellows had dreamed that his left foot
had been cut off with a cannon ball.
He brought his hand down across his
left leg to show where, just as the sig
nal gun was fired at half past 8 a. M.
''All the officers ran to their COM
mands, and the brigade moved for
ward. When we reached the enemy's
main line we encountered CALLING fire
and an obstruction Of cheveaux deSrise
and abatis wired together and staked
or anchored in the ground i'm front of
hitch. We were compelled to break
through these Instructions after we
had made run of nearly a quarter of
4 mile. Col. Don McCOok fell, mortally
wounded. Col. Harmon took command
Of the brigade, and was instantly kill
ed. mimic ball going through his
neart. Capt. Fellows, another one of
the dreamers, rushed forward, shout
ing, Come on, boys, we'll take and
fell dead a few feet from the ditch.
Col. FahnestOck ordered second
Charge but we failed to carry the
works, fell back twenty-seven PAGES,
separated into four. lines, threw up
breastwOrks, and held our position.
"FahnestOck came out as he dreamed
he would Harmon did not dream that
he was to be killed, and Fellows did
aot dream that he was to be killed, but
both were shot dead. So, after all, the
facts were not greatly in favor of be-
lief in dreams. but officers and men of
that brigade who knew of the CONVEX
:ation between FahnestOck, Harmon,
md Fellows just before the charge was
made accepted all that happened as
sustaining a belief in dreams"
Belief in dreams or premOnition had
,ery little TO do with the actualities of
oattle," said the Major. ''One Of the
oest men in our company at Stone
River dreamed on the night of Dec. 80,
1860. that he would be killed in battle
he next day. He was sick all that
aight. and took his place in line the
1ext morning with two blankets worn
shawl fashion about his shoulders. He
shook like man with the ague, but
No would not leave the ranks, even
when the surgeon peremptOrily ordered
him to the rear.
He told me privately Of his dream,
md said that he was not going to eyade
he issue. He admitted that he was
gerry sick, but he was going to remain
n the fight and he was going to meet
his death in the spirit of the warning
that he believed had been given him in
n dream. He listened to Gen. Rose
Grams order of battle with kindlinp
eyes. Hewent forward in the charge
with the blankets tapping about him
and yelling like an Indian. He came
out of the battle without a scratch.
but was in hospital three or four weeks
with fever. He recovered from that
served through the war, and came to
believe finally that his dream was the
result of his sickness. and was not a
when we were in West Virginia one
of my men dreamed that in going
through a defile. rebels, shooting down
from the hills on either side, put four
bullets through his body from shoulder
to his feet, and that he scampered
the defile and fell dead after |
he got through. The next day, after a
long forced march, we approached a
defile that answered to the vision of |
his dream. He fell out of ranks with |
feet so sore and limbs SO stiff that he |
could not walk another step. Just then |
the bugle sounded in front. He forgot |
all about sore feet and stiff limbs and |
ran forward, as he expressed it. like a
lame camel. He went through the de- !
file at a limping gallop. A dozen shots |
or more were fired, but not bullet |