Soldiers' Dreams

A week previous to the bat.tle oí' Fai Oaks a New York volunteer who passe( the night in the tent of a nicinber of ih third Michigan infantry got up in th morning looking very glum and down hearted, and when rallied about his fancied sickness he replied: "I have only a week to live ! I had dreaui last night whicU has settled the bus iness Cor me and hundreds of othern. A week froiu to-day a battle will be fough and thousands of' people will be skin. M regiment will lose over 100 men, and I wi be killed while eharging acress the field.' The men laughed at his moody spirit but he turned upon them and said : "Your regiment will also be in the fight and, when the roll is called after the battle you will have nothiog to be merry over The two sergeants who were in here las night will be killed among the trees. aw theiu lying dead as plam as I now se you. One will be shot in the breast am the olher in the groin, and dead men wi be thiek around (hem The battle took place just a week after The dreamer was killed in full Mght o every man in the third, before the figh was an hour old, and, within twenty min utes after, the two sergeants and six o their comrades were dead in the wood, lii exactly where the dreamer said they wouk be. More than fifty men will witness to the truth of this statement. J ust before the battle ot' Oedar Creek a camp sentinel, who was off duty tempo rarily and trying to put in a little sleep dreamed that he went out on a scout, i mile to the right of our camp he carne upon a log barn, and as it began to rain jut then, he sought shelter or was about to when üd heard voices and discovered tha the place was already occupied. After a little investigation he ascertaincd that three Confedérate scouts had taken up their quarters for the night in the place, and he theicfore moved away. The sentinel awoke with .such a vivid remembrance ot' details that he a.-keil to go over and cunferjrith one of the scouts. When the log barn was described to this man he located it at once, having passed it a dozen mms. The dreamer described the highway exactly as it was, giving every hill and turn, and the scout put such faith in the remunderof the dream that he took four soldiers, one of whom was the dreamer, and set out for the place. Three confed erate scouts were asleep in the straw, and were taken without a shot being fired. The driiaiu and results were known to hundreds of Sheridan's cavalry, and has been alluded to at reunions. The night before the cavalry fight at Brandy Station a trooper, who slept as his horse jogged along in column, dreamed that a cei tuin captain in his regiment would be unüursed in a light next day, and while rising from his ('all would be wounded in the left kuee. Everything was so clear to the dreamer that he took an ppportunity to find the captain and relate his dream. '"Go to Texas with your croaking !" was all the thanks he received, but he was revended. In the very first charge next day the captain was unhorsed by the brcakiug of the girth, and was pitched head over heels into a patch of briars. As he strugglcd out a shell killed his horse and two men, and one of the flying pieces of iron nia-lud the captain's left leg to a bloody pulp. He is nDW a resident of Ohio, and his wooden leg is indisputable evidence that dreams sometimos come to pas-. While McOlellan was besieging Yoiktown the fun was not all on one side. The confedérales had plenty of shot and shell, and they sent them out with intent to kill. One morning, a Michigan man, who was in the trenches, walked back to a spot on which three officers were eating breakfast, and warned them that they were in great peril. On the night previous he had dreamed that he had looked at his watch and remarked that it was a quarter of seven, when a shell hit the ground behind him and tore up the earth In a temóle way. It was now twenty minutes to seven, and he besought the officers to leave the spot at once. His earnest manner induced them to cornply, and they had only reached cover when a confedérate shell struck the earth where they had been grouped, and made an excavation into which a horse could have rolled, with room to spare.