Dreams

Unnamed cavalry trooper's prophetic dream regarding a captain's fall

Published October 23, 2026 at 6:32 AM

1860s · 1863
Brandy Station

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The night before the cavalry fight at Brandy Station, a trooper dreamt that a specific captain in his regiment would be unhorsed and subsequently wounded in his left knee while getting up. He warned the captain, who laughed at him. During the next day's first charge, the captain was unhorsed by a broken girth, and while struggling out of a patch of briars, his horse was killed by a shell, which mashed the captain's left knee, necessitating amputation.

In Their Own Words

“The night before the cavalry fight at Brandy Station, a trooper, who slept as he jogged along in the column, dreamed that a certain captain in his regiment would be unhorsed in a fight the next day, and while rising from his fall would be wounded in his left knee. He told the captain his dream, but was laughed at for his credulity, but, in the very first charge the next day the captain was unhorsed by the breaking of the girth, and was pitched heels over head into a patch of briars. While he was struggling out his horse was killed by a shell, a fragment mashed the captain's left knee, so that he had to have it amputated. — Millennial Star 83:20”

Sources & References

The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), Vol. 83, No. 20 (1921). https://archive.org/details/millennialstar8320eng (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)

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