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(06-09-2014 03:11 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  BTW - did anyone else but G. Welles report about A. L.'s dream of the vessel on which was moving with great speed towards an indefinite shore he allegedly had before certain important events?

Eva, yes. Frederick Seward also noted this. It's in Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830-1915. With reference to that final Cabinet meeting Frederick Seward wrote:

"The conversation turning upon the subject of sleep, Mr. Lincoln remarked that a peculiar dream of the previous night was one that had occurred several times in his life, — a vague sense of floating — floating away on some vast and indistinct expanse, toward an unknown shore. The dream itself was not so strange as the coincidence that each of its previous recurrences had been followed by some important event or disaster, which he mentioned."