noon
`` On Jackson , who is still in front of us . But we have waited a long time . It must be full noon now . '' `` It is past noon , sir , but I hear the trumpets , calling up our men . '' `` They are calling to us , too . '' The regiment shifted a little to the right , where a great column was forming for a direct attack upon the Confederate lines . Twenty thousand men stood in a vast line and forty thousand were behind them to march in support .