midnight
It was made up of men from the middle sections of the State , a company to every few counties with battalion headquarters in three of the smaller cities , Truesdale for one . In the city regiments was a blue-stocking element which did not fit the Governor 's present needs . As soon as Colonel Wray reached Truesdale , he established himself in the inhospitable warehouse which in reports was called an armory . Before midnight the local company was collected , uniformed , and in order . Later special trains arrived , and squads and companies marched through the echoing streets , to sit dozing about the armory . At three-thirty a train came in from the southern counties bringing the second battalion , three hundred husky farm lads who glowed with responsibility as they stacked arms and awaited orders . Then came a telephone message that McNally 's relief train had left for the North .