four
o'clock in the morning
`` We have moved our camp . Why , heaven knows . If our general understood what cavalry is for we would have been out long ago -- miles from here -- if to do nothing more than make a few maps which , it seems , our august leaders entirely lack . `` During the night the order came : ` This division will move at four o'clock in the morning with two days ' rations . ' All night long we were at work with axe and hammer , tearing down quarters , packing stores , and loading our waggons . `` We have an absurd number of waggons . There is an infantry regiment camped near us that has a train of one hundred and thirty-six-mule teams to transport its household goods .