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But would he retreat down the Peninsula by the way he had come , or would he strike across and down the James to his gunboats by Westover ? The city gathered that General Lee was waiting to find out . In the meantime the day that was set to the Dead March in `` Saul '' passed somehow , in the June heat and the odour of flowers and blood . Toward five o'clock Judith left the Stonewall Hospital . She had not quitted it for twenty-four hours , and she came now into the light and air like a form emerging from Hades , very palely smiling , with the grey of the underworld , its breath and its terror still about her . There was hardly yet a consciousness of fatigue . Twelve hours before she had thought , `` If I do not rest a little , I shall fall . ''