The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1863., [Electronic resource]

The Greenbrier Mirage.

It is well known that an army of Yankees, several thousand in number, have an encampment at Fayette Court House, in the county of Fayette, which adjoins Greenbrier county. At the very hour mentioned — namely, three o'clock P. M — they are daily subjected to a drill, in which they go through all their various military exercises. Is it not probable, and more than probable, that these ærial soldiers were produced by the same cause which produces the spectre of the Brocken, and other similar apparitions ?--that owing to the accidental condensation of some atmospheric vapors at the precise time they were drilling, on the evening particularly specified, an atmospherical speculum was formed by the hand of nature in the mountainous locality of Mr. Piercy's residence, and that the figures seen by Mr. P.'s family were the images of this body of Yankees, who were then marching in regular order, and reflected in the air in their natural colors and forms.?