five o'clock
`` Perhaps before daybreak , sir . '' `` Perhaps . And even after the sun begins to rise it will be like twilight in this gloomy place . '' Grant , in truth , prompt and ready as always , had ordered the advance to be begun at half-past four , but Meade , asking more time for arrangements and requesting that it be delayed until six , he had consented to a postponement until five o'clock and no more . Harry had one more message to carry , a short distance only , and on his return he found the Invincibles posted on the commander-in-chief 's right , and not more than two hundred yards away . `` You must be a body guard for the general , '' he said to Colonel Leonidas Talbot . `` There could be no greater honor for the Invincibles , nor could General Lee have a better guard . ''