noon
`` I 'm going to keep an eye on these people , '' Mosby told Beattie . `` Gather up as many men as you can , and meet me in about half an hour on the hill above Middleburg . But hurry ! I 'd rather have five men now than a hundred by noon . '' When Beattie with six men rejoined Mosby , he found the latter sitting on a stump , munching an apple and watching the enemy through his field glasses . Wyndham , who had been searching Middleburg for `` Mosby 's headquarters , '' was just forming his men for a push on to Upperville , where he had been assured by the canny Middleburgers that Mosby had his camp . Mosby and his men cantered down the hillside to the road as Wyndham 's force moved out of the village and then broke into a mad gallop to overtake them .