two o'clock
`` I have n't been asleep more than an hour or two , '' snarled Fred Pemberton . `` Shut up your heads , and turn out ! '' said the sergeant . It was the morning of the eventful twenty-first of July , and it was only two o'clock when the regiment was roused from its slumbers ; but there was no great hardship in this fact , for most of the men had been sleeping the greater portion of the time during the preceding two days . Tom Somers was ready to take his place in the line in a few moments . `` Come , fellows , hurry up , '' said he to his tardy companions . `` The time has come , and , I tell you , there 'll be music before many hours . ''