The Washington times., 1901-11-10
DREAMS BEFORE BATTLE.
Many Soldiers Have Been Made Ner-
sous by Them.

"A good many soldiers said the doc
tor, believe in dreams. l remember very
we'll the day that Colonel Dan McCook,
commanding our brigade in front of Ken
esaw, called the regimental commanders
to report TO him in person. When Col
onel Fahnestock. of the Eighty-sixth lili-
nois, had come up 10 the tree where Col
onel Dan was sitting he said: We are go
ing to charge the rebel works in our
front Addressing Colonel Oscar E. Har-
mon, of the l25th Illinois, he said: You
will command the first line To Colonel
Fahnestock he said: You will lead the
second line, and when you carry the
works shove down the boys on the rebels
and deploy your regiment to the left and
occupy the works
Addressing Colonel C. ]. Dilworth, of
the Eighty-ffth Illinois. McCook said:
You will lead the skirmish line with your
regiment He directed Captain Snod-
grass. OF the Twenty-second Indiana, to
lead the third line, and Colonel Clancey,
of the Fifty-second Ohio, to lead the
fourth line, the lines to follow each other
at intervals of ten PAGES. Colonel Fahne-
stock returned to his regiment, called the
officers together, gave them instructions,
ordered the men .tO load at Will. and not
to fire a gun until we reached the enc
my's works. We were then lying down
in the order assigned, waiting for the sig
nal gun.
While waiting Colonel Fahnestock
went to a little cluster of bushes where
Colonel Harmon and Captain Fellows
were sitting, in front of the 125th Illinois.
The three knelt or sat down facing each
other to engage in conversation. Colonel
I~ah scrtfar uhfG
tie and tore up his letters. Colonel Har
mon asked him whether he thought we
would carry the works. Fahnestock re
piled he thought not; that we had waited
too long; that 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
we would have to charge.
Colonel Harmon agreed with MIN as
to surrender, bat said he thought we could
carry the works. Colonel Fahnestock re-
piled that he had been sick all night: that
he had had dream, in which he was in
terrible battle but got out safe. Colonel
Harmon said that he had had a dream,
in which he was fighting copperheads in
the North; that he then became engaged
in a. big battle, but did not know how it
terminated. Captain Fellows had dreamed
that his left foot had been cut off with a
cannon balll. He brought his hand down
across his left leg to show where, just
as the signal gun was fired at $50 a. m.
-AIl the officers ran to their commands,
and the brigade moved forward. When
we reached the enemys main line We en-
couontered a CALLING fire and an obstruc-
ton of cheveaux de frise and abatis wired
together and staked or anchored in the
ground in front of a ditch. We were COM
PEELED to break through these obstructions
after we had made run OF nearly
quarter of a mile. Colonel Dan McCook
fell mortally wounded. Colonel Harmon
took command of the brigade, and was
instantly killed, mimic ball going through
his heart. Captain Fellows, another one
of the dreamers, rushed forward, shout
ing, Come on, boys! Wen take and
fell dead a few feet from the ditch. Colo
mel Fahnestock ordered second charge,