midnight
`` I 've found it very interesting , sir , '' said Dick , `` and I think it 's relevant , because it shows that even in war men may remain Christian human beings . '' `` Perhaps you 're right , and I trust , young sir , that you will not be killed in this defeat to which you are surely marching . '' Dick bowed to both , and left them to their fears and hopes . The glow was still about his heart when he rode forth with the Winchester regiment after midnight . But , owing to the need of horses for the regular cavalry , it had become an infantry regiment once more . Only the officers rode . At dawn they were with Grant approaching a ridge called Champion Hill .