Lincoln’s Dream
April 12, 2011 - by
One more Civil War story: In 1865, just after Lee surrendered at Appomattox Lincoln went to bed and had a dream: He was alone in the White House, walking through empty rooms and heard voices wailing; he walked towards the sound and came to a wide room he didn’t recognize but in the middle of the room was a casket on a bier with four soldiers standing guard. He asked, Who died? and one of the soldiers told him, Why, the President.
The next morning Lincoln told his Cabinet Secretary about his dream and added he’d had strange dreams twice before during the war – before Vicksburg and Gettysburg. In those dreams, he said, he’d been sailing down a river in a ship, standing on deck at night in a fog and couldn’t see the shore – then he added: After each of those dreams we won a great victory – do you reckon this one means today we’ll get word General Joe Johnston (commanding the last Confederate Army in North Carolina) has surrendered?
That night Lincoln went to Ford’s Theatre.
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Lincoln’s Dream
April 12, 2011/
One more Civil War story: In 1865, just after Lee surrendered at Appomattox Lincoln went to bed and had a dream: He was alone in the White House, walking through empty rooms and heard voices wailing; he walked towards the sound and came to a wide room he didn’t recognize but in the middle of the room was a casket on a bier with four soldiers standing guard. He asked, Who died? and one of the soldiers told him, Why, the President.
The next morning Lincoln told his Cabinet Secretary about his dream and added he’d had strange dreams twice before during the war – before Vicksburg and Gettysburg. In those dreams, he said, he’d been sailing down a river in a ship, standing on deck at night in a fog and couldn’t see the shore – then he added: After each of those dreams we won a great victory – do you reckon this one means today we’ll get word General Joe Johnston (commanding the last Confederate Army in North Carolina) has surrendered?
That night Lincoln went to Ford’s Theatre.
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