about 3 p.m.
Presently the ambulances began to come by us , loaded with wounded , and that settled it . When there was no fighting , and I was half sick , and felt under obligations to a Confederate girl for taking care of me , I did n't want any of her friends hurt , but when her friends forgot them-selves , and come to a peaceable place , and began to kill off our boys , friendship ceased , and I wondered why we did n't get orders to saddle up and go in . We were all on the hill watching things , when the colonel , who had been riding off somewhere , came along . We thought he would order us all under arrest for disobeying orders , but he rode up to us , and pointing to a place off to the right a mile or so , where there was a sharp infantry fight , he said , `` Boys , we shall probably go in right there about 3 p.m. , unless the rebels are reinforced , '' and he rode down to his tent . Well , after about twenty ambulances had gone by us with wounded soldiers , we did n't care how soon we went in there . We watched the infantry and artillery for another hour , as pretty a sight as one often sees . It was so far away we could not see men fall , and it was more like a celebration , until one got near enough to see the dead .