midnight
`` Do n't get to crowin ' too loud , '' grumbled Shorty . `` If they find out what a good thing we have , some Jigadier-Brindle 'll snatch it away for himself . '' But Si was fast asleep before Shorty finished speaking . Sometime before midnight the Orderly-Sergeant came around , and after vigorous kicking and shaking , succeeded in waking them . `` Get up , '' he said , `` and draw some rations . The wagons 've got in from Nashville . '' -LCB- 108 -RCB- `` My gracious ! ''