eleven o'clock
In these regions , indeed , the stillness might seem doubled , reinforced , for from other stretches of the Wilderness , specifically from those which had for neighbour the roads , quiet had fled . To right and left of the Tabernacle church were breastworks , Anderson holding them against Hooker 's advance . In the early morning , through the dewy Wilderness , came from Fredericksburg way Stonewall Jackson and the 2d Corps , in addition Lafayette McLaws with his able Roman air and troops in hand . At the church they rested until eleven o'clock , then , gathering up Anderson , they plunged more deeply yet into the Wilderness . They moved in two columns , McLaws leading by the turnpike , Anderson in advance on the Plank Road , Jackson himself with the main body following by the latter road . Oh , bright-eyed , oh , bronzed and gaunt and ragged , oh , full of quips and cranks , of jest and song and courage , oh , endowed with all quaint humour , invested with all pathos , ennobled by vast struggle with vast adversity , oh , sufferers of all things , hero-fibred , grim fighters , oh , Army of Northern Virginia -- all men and all women who have battled salute you , going into the Wilderness this May day with the red birds singing ! On swing the two columns , long , easy , bayonets gleaming , accoutrements jingling , colours deep glowing in the sunshine .