"[1]
[Footnote 1: Fact.]
And turning to Amanda, he said:--
"When did you see these things?"
"I think it was in March, sir."
The words were uttered in the simplest manner possible. The strange
woman smiled as sweetly as she spoke, and seemed as far from being
guilty of a deliberate imposture as before.
"And you _saw_ the fight at Reams's, too?"
"Yes, sir; I saw it two months before it took place. There was a man
killed running through the yard of a house, and they told me,
afterward, he was found dead there."
"Have you had any visions, since?"
"Only one, sir."
"Lately?"
"Yes, sir."
"What did you see?"
"It was not much, sir. I saw the Federal people on horses, watering
their horses in a large river somewhere west of here, and the vision
said the war would be over about next March."
Mohun smiled.
"Which side will be successful, Amanda?"
"The vision did not say, sir."[1]
[Footnote 1: Colonel Surry assured me that he had scrupulously searched
his memory to recall the exact words of this singular woman: and that
he had given the precise substance of her statements; often, the exact
words.--ED.]
Mohun, who had taken his seat on a rude settee, leaned his elbow on his
knee, and for some moments gazed into the fire.
"I have asked you some questions, Amanda," he said at length, "relating
to public events.
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