1862 July 30 Clarke County, Va.

[from the diary of Matthella Page Harrison as transcribed at a later date]

Cousin William Whiting was here this morning before breakfast.  Prayer meting at Mr. Clark's.  A large attendance.  We hear Jackson is advancing in three columns on Pope's army, with whom he had a successful engagement this week.  I heard this evening of a singular dream of a man in Richmond.  He dreamed he would die at four o'clock the next day, that on such a day the fiercest battle of the war would be fought at a place called Gaines Mill and that peace would be declared in three months.  He did die at the appointed time, the battle was fought, but peace has yet to be declared.

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