Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1891 — Sherman's Remarkrble Dream. [ARTICLE]

Sherman's Remarkrble Dream.

St. Louis Writers who have busied themselves picking up anecdotes and inincidents of the life of Sherman appear to have whollj’ overlooked the story of his remarkable dream. The. editor of “Notes for the Curious” has had the account in aucrape-book for upward of twenty years. It is as follows: One night the general took refuge i in unold farmhouse and had fallen in to a deep sleep when he was visited ' by a most exciting dream. He fancied that the house in which he slept was surrounded by a band of guerrillas, who had dug a hole beneath the room in which he lay, tilled it with powder and touched it off. The explosion that followed was terrible, and the; general thought ho saw himself fly-1 ing through tue air in sections. The. » shock of this terrible experience?' caused him to jump to the middle of the floor. Hastily dressing, he left the building. He had not gone far into the night when a red glare shot up- from the farm house, followed by a terrific explosion. The building was wrecked, but the dream saved the life of the great general.