midnight
`` We will join the Army of the Valley _ wherever it may be _ . Then we will march against Shields or Fremont , or maybe against Banks or Sigel . '' Breaking camp in the afternoon , they moved down the pike , through a country marvellous to the Georgians and Texans . Sunset came , and still they marched ; dark , and still they marched ; midnight , and , extremely weary , they halted in a region of hills running up to the stars . Reveille sounded startlingly soon . The troops had breakfast while the stars were fading , and found themselves in column on the pike under the first pink streakings of the dawn . They looked around for the Army of the Valley .