midnight
It seemed to me the officers of my regiment were taking a suicidal course in barring me out of their consultations . A soldier had told me that we were lost in the woods , and as I had studied geography when at school , and was well posted about Alabama , it seemed as though a little advice from me would be worth a good deal . But I concluded to let them stay lost forever before I would volunteer any information . It was crawling along towards midnight , of my first day in the army , and I had eaten nothing since morning . As I sat there under the tree I fell asleep , and was dreaming of home , and warm biscuit , with honey , and a feather bed , when I was rudely awakened by a corporal who told me to mount . I asked him what for , and told him that I didn t want to ride any more that night . What I wanted was to be let alone , to sleep .