I've had this dream before but I don't remember how many times before, and I think this may be part of a continuation of the dream from before...

I'm in Charleston, SC as a visitor one night and I start to go down to a place that is similar to The Battery and Fort Sumter. I'm walking around and I see all these people in the Civil War time era clothes. They are running around but my mother and I are walking around in clothes of today. We walk around, listening to what everyone talks about and we hear the Yankee soldiers talk about how they are going to take on Charleston. When we go away from them, we enter a house that houses Southern soldiers. Here I feel completely safe. I walk in and the lady tells me (that I have seen in the house before) that the house was still haunted (I remember this from a previous dream). All of a sudden a few doors shut and then open back up. I greet the ghost friendly and continue to talk to the woman named Elizabeth. She tells me that her sons are going to start fighting against the Union and she doesn't know what she's going to do with herself.

My mother asks Elizabeth were a place called Wren is. Elizabeth tells us we have to go through another dark haunted building to get there. I'm nervous about this because we have to go through the dark building. All of a sudden my mother disappears and I'm in a Civil War time Era dress myself. I look to Elizabeth and tell her that I'll go because there I can get more people on our side to fight. She smiles and I leave the safety of her home. I pass a few Southern soldiers that are imprisoned and I promise that I will let them go as soon as I return. I run down the street and see my dream guide (who is a wolf) nod in the right direction. I run that way and then I'm stopped. Elizabeth's two sons are stopped by a Yankee soldier at gun point. I step in and see what the problem is. The Yankee says that the boys are going to be charged with planning against the Union because they are Southern. I talk the Yankee out of hurting them by telling them that they wouldn't do such a thing because they had a mother they had to take care of. There was no way that they'd leave her. Luckily, the Yankee believed me and then let them go as they started to walk back in the direction that I came from but they stopped before they rounded the corner. The eldest told the youngest to return home. The eldest came up to me and took my hand then started to lead me in the direction of Wren. Before we entered the building he smiled a crooked smile and then we entered the building to run through.

As soon as that happened, I woke up. I haven't reached Wren yet. Any idea what this could mean?

That's quite an interesting dream.

The meaning would depend on what the Civil War and the different aspects of it in your dream mean to you.

Are you a history buff?

What do the North sides and the South sides of the Civil War represent to you?

Do you know anyone named Elizabeth?

Could "wren" have anything to do with the bird, or with someone with bird-like qualities?

I am a history buff. I'm also a History major in college.

As for what the sides mean to me, I'm not really sure. My family and I are southern and we had family that fought for the South during the Civil War. The South is my home.

Elizabeth is a family name. My mother's middle name is Elizabeth, as is mine.

And 'wren'... I have no idea. There wasn't anyone in my dream that had bird-like qualities that I can remember... and I'm not sure of anyone that has bird-like qualities either...

Well, since you are studying history and you had family that fought for the South, the setting for the dream just seems natural for you.

Since the dream takes place just before the Yankees are going to take Charleston and the fighting is to begin, and Elizabeth doesn't know what to do, maybe this dream is about an upcoming conflict or decision that you have to make that you aren't sure what to do about.

Since this is a recurring dream, do you remember if you tend to have the dream when something important is coming up in your life?

The haunted house/ghosts in the dream could be a reminder that you have been through similar things before, and that you should try to learn from the past/your mistakes.