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Premonitions
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Author:  Joe Meyer [ Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Premonitions
Maybe I'm mistaken in my older age, but I tend to believe that the generation of men who fought within the American Civil War were, by faith and culture, much closer to the spiritual world than we of today. They certainly seemed to look at the possibility of their own deaths in a more direct manner. And for many of them, if we can credit the numerous accounts that have survived by others, the premonition of that death was something of a common occurrance.

One such that has stuck in my mind came from an interchange between two commanders just before the actual battlefield death of one of them. The superior officer, a Union corps commander and major general at the time, sat his horse watching the brigades of one of his divisions passing in line towards the front, when he spied one of his favorite BC's, a colonel and one whom he had thought should have been a brigadier, once again and true to character, steadfastly leading his men forward. Moving himself closer to his friend the CC called out above the sound of impending battle, "_______, this will be your last fight without a star!" The colonel, looking up and recognizing his famed, former division commander and old acquaintance, called out, "Too late! This will be my last fight!" He was shot down ten minutes afterward.

Can anyone tell me who the two officers were?
Author:  John Ferry [ Fri Apr 12, 2013 5:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Premonitions
Hancock and Col Cross. Gettysburg.
J Ferry
Maj 2/20 Corps
Author:  John Ferry [ Fri Apr 12, 2013 5:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Premonitions
One of my favorites: A company commander came upon one of his men lying moaning on the ground. "Smith! Smith! What's wrong with you? Get up, man."
"I'm shot, Cap'n, I'm shot."
"Nonsense! Where are you shot?"
The man beat his fist on his forehead. "Here, Cap'n, here! I'm shot."
"There's nothing wrong with you. Get on your feet!" The captain dragged the man to his feet, pushed his musket into his hands, and shoved him toward the front.
A few minutes later, he came on Smith, lying on the ground again.
Shot in the forehead.

At what battle did this take place?
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