twelve o'clock
We lay down and took the fire and the rain . We lay there for something like two hours ; then we moved to the rear , -- only our regiment , I think , -- fronted again , and marched to the right for perhaps a mile through the woods . Willis said that we were seeking any enemy that might be in the woods ; but he aroused no interest ; nobody either approved or seemed to doubt Willis 's interpretation of the movement ; we did not know what the generals were doing with us , and we were tired and sleepy and hungry and wet . By twelve o'clock we had marched back to our former position near the felled timber . Rain continued to fall , and the hostile batteries to fire upon each other . Wounded men were carried to the rear . I noticed that our company seemed small ; perhaps a few had been wounded ; certainly many had fallen out of ranks , unable longer to endure .