Dreams

Unnamed New York volunteer's prophetic dream of battle deaths

Published October 23, 2026 at 6:32 AM

1860s · 1862
Battle of Fair Oaks

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A week before the Battle of Fair Oaks, a New York volunteer dreamt that a great battle would occur in one week where he would be killed while charging across a field, two sergeants he knew would be killed in the woods (one shot in the breast, one in the groin), and many others would die. The event occurred exactly as dreamt, with the dreamer killed in sight of his regiment and the two sergeants killed in the woods twenty minutes later with the specific wounds described.

In Their Own Words

“A week previous to the battle of Fair Oaks, a New York volunteer dreamed that in just one week there was to be a great battle, in which he would be killed while charging across a field; that two sergeants of his acquaintance would be killed in the woods, one shot in the breast and the other in the groin, and that a large number of others would be killed. The soldier appeared so depressed in spirits the next day that his companions rallied him about being homesick, and he reluctantly told his dream. In just a week the battle took place, and the dreamer was killed in full sight of his regiment, and the two sergeants were killed, twenty minutes after, in the woods, one shot through the breast and the other in the groin, just as had been foretold in the dream. — 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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