previous next

A war sign in the Heaven

--Gov. Black, of Nebraska, gives the following description of a remarkable display witnessed at Omaha at the close of last year:

‘"Shortly after the moon rose, a very distinct and bright cross was visible, of which the moon was the centre. The arms of the cross extended on either side, apparently about one degree; at the extremity of each arm was an upright column, seen through thin clouds. The pillars were variegated like a rainbow. When the moon was about three hours high, the cross and the columns disappeared and several bright and distinct circles succeeded; at one time as many as six great circles were visible. From ten to eleven (when I went to bed) two circles only were displayed, but those were very bright and beautiful; and what, to me, seemed most strange, part of the circumference of the one ran through the centre of the other — a clear and complete belt. I am not able to describe the manifestations as they were seen, but they were quite enough to excite our 'special wonder.'"’

The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 28, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Omaha (Nebraska, United States) (1)
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (1)

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Black (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: