" The Dream of Death"
             How can one distinguish between the two distant realms of dreams and reality? To many, the answer to this question is simple; dreams occur in our sleep, and reality is events, occurrences, and happenings that go on in our daily lives. However, many people wonder, is it possible that at one point in time that our dreams actually did occur in reality, and even if they did not, how do our dreams affect us when we awake from our slumber? " Dreams surely difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those who pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those who issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them."(Homer, The Odyssey, 700 BC) I will leave you to judge both questions for yourselves.
             After two days of the most ferocious fighting yet to be witnessed in the entire war, I was tired, hungry, and weary of the omnipresent feeling that death lurked just around the corner. On the third day of the engagement, I was aroused from my precious slumber by an eruption of artillery fire directly in front of me. For a brief moment, I thought that we were under attack. However, after coming to my senses, I saw that it was actually Confederate artillerymen firing the cannons, our boys. So many cannons, as far as my vision would stretch up and down the line of our positions, the only action that could be seen were the gunners in grey working feverishly to load, fire, and reload their guns.
             The sun shone down on the cannons, making them gleam with an odd sense of beauty. They stood out in such a peculiar way; the great centerpieces of destruction, pouring their deadly hailstorm of fire on our Yankee foes who were over one mile away. With the amount of firepower that was tearing into the Y...