about four o'clock
I turned again and sought the woods , and again advanced parallel with the road , until , in about three hundred yards , I could see a field in my front . This field ran up to the road , and beyond the road there was another field , the road running between rail fences . I returned to Jones , whom I found somewhat alarmed in consequence of my long absence , and we brought the horses up to the spot to which I had advanced . It was now about four o'clock , and we had yet three hours of daylight . Hanover could not be much more than two miles from us . The field in front was not wide ; it sloped down to a heavily wooded hollow , in which I judged there was a stream . As I was yet quite unsatisfied in regard to the house almost in our rear , I asked Jones to creep back and observe the place thoroughly .