about eleven o'clock at night
There were eight or ten houses outside the stockade , and in course we wanted these pulled down ; but they would n't hear of it . Howsomever , we got 'em to work to strengthen the stockades , to make loop-holes in the houses near 'em , to put up barricades from house to house , and to prepare generally for a fight . We divided into three watches . `` Well , just as I expected , about eleven o'clock at night the Injuns attacked . Our watch might just as well have been asleep for any good they did , for it was not till the redskins had crept up to the stockade all round and opened fire between the timbers on 'em that they knew that they were near . I 'll do 'em justice to say that they fought stiff enough then , and for four hours they held the line of houses ; every redskin who climbed the stockade fell dead inside it . Four fires had been lighted directly they attacked to enable us to keep 'em from scaling the stockade , but they showed us to the enemy , of course .