Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 506, 25 January 1902 — THE MYSTERY OF DREAMS. [ARTICLE]

THE MYSTERY OF DREAMS.

A Case In Which the Coincidence# Were Remarkable. On one occasion during the civil war I dreamed that I was standing beside a road when there came marching along it a strong column of prisoners, with guards at intervals on the flanks. I asked one of these guards who the prisoners were and where they had been captured. He informed me that they had been taken in an engagement with the enemy on the day before and that there were L. 900 of them. I then asked some bystander what day of the month it was and was told it was such a day of a certain month, some six weeks later than the date of the dream. The whole dream was extremely distinct, and it made a strong impression on me. I related It to a number of my comrades within the nest few days and then thought of It no more. Six weeks later, on u morning of the very day that had been mentioned In the dream as the date when the column of prisoners had passed before me. 1 was on picket two miles distant from the point where I had seemed to be when I saw them. It was soon after breakfast, and I was standing by the side of the road at the tire talking to the otßcer of the picket when an aid to the commanding general came riding down the road. He had been a schoolfellow of our officer’s at West Point, and he reined up when he recognized his friend. He told us that he had good news; that there had been a sharp engagement with the enemy the day before and that our people had captured 1.900 prisoners, who had just passed the headquarters that morning on their way to the rear.--it. Louis Globe-Democrat.