four o'clock in the
afternoon
exclaimed Ephraim . `` I call that day to mind as if it was yesterday . I remember how the boys yelled when they told us we was goin ' to Sheridan . We got started about daylight , and it took us till four o'clock in the afternoon to git into position . The woods was just comin ' a little green , and the white dogwoods was bloomin ' around . Sheridan , he galloped up to the line with that black horse of his 'n and hollered out , ` Come on , boys , go in at a clean , jump or You wo n't ketch one of 'em . ' You know how men , even veterans like that Fifth Corps , sometimes hev to be pushed into a fight .