About noon
Was _ that _ what the army thought of them ? But they had little time for nursing their mortification that morning ; the firing along the river was breaking out in patches with a viciousness and volume heretofore unheard ; and a six-gun Confederate field battery had joined in , arousing the entire camp of Claymore 's brigade . Louder and louder grew the uproar along the river ; smoke rose and took silvery-edged shape in the sunshine ; bugles were calling to the colours regiments encamped on the right ; a light battery trotted out across a distant meadow , unlimbered and went smartly into action . About noon the bugles summoned the 3rd Zouaves . As they were forming , the camps of the 8th Lancers and the 10th Light Battery rang with bugle music . Berkley , standing to horse , saw the Zouaves leaving the hill at a jog-trot , their red legs twinkling ; but half way down the slope they were halted to dress ranks ; and the Lancers , cantering ahead , turned westward and moved off along the edge of the river swamp toward the piled-up cloud of smoke down stream . After them trotted the 10th New York Flying Battery as though on parade , their guidons standing straight out behind the red-and-white guidons of the Lancers .