Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1881 — A Soldiers Dream. [ARTICLE]

A Soldiers Dream.

Just before the battle of Cedar Creek a camp sentinel who tjas off duty temporarily and trying to put in a little sleep, dreamed that he went out on a scout. A mile to the right of the 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 voices and discovered that the place was already occupied. After a little investigation he discovered 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 the details that he asked permission to When the log barn was described to this man lie located it at once, having passed it a 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 the drearrf 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. Three days before the affair at Iteeley’s Ford a corporal in the Sixth Michigan Cavalry dreamed that a brother of his, who was a sergeant in another company, would have his horse killed in action, and would almost immediately mount a dark bay horse with a white nose. Within five minutes both horse and rider would be killed by a shell. This dream was related to more than a score of comrades fully two days before the fight. Early in the fight" the sergeant’s horse was struck square in the forhead by a bullet and dropped dead in his tracks. It was scarcely three minutes before a whitenosed horse, carrying a blood-stained saddle galloped up to the sergeant and halted. He remembered the dream and refused to mount the animal, and soon after picked up a black horse. The white-nosed animal was mounted by a second corporal in another regiment, and the horse and rider were torn to fragments by a shell, in full sight of four companies of the Sixth. —New York Commercial Advertiser.

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