midnight
`` Teamster had got hold of a letter to his girl , '' explained the Sergeant , `` and was reading it to these whelps . '' `` O , '' said the Officer of the Guard in a different tone . `` Run these rascals down there in front of the Quartermaster 's and set them to work digging those stumps out . Keep them at it till midnight , without anything to eat . I 'll teach them to raise disturbances in camp . '' THOUGH every man in the Army of the Cumberland felt completely worn out at the end of the Tullahoma campaign , it needed but a few days ' rest in pleasant camps on the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains , with plenty of rations and supplies of clothing , to beget a restlessness for another advance . They felt envious of their comrades of the Army of the Tennessee , who had cornered their enemy in Vicksburg and forced him to complete surrender .