noon
But it looks dark , very dark , for you . May heaven help you . '' The chaplain was worried all the morning , and the officers and men joked him unmercifully . At noon the chaplain was released from arrest , as we were to move at four p. m. , and he begged so to be allowed to accompany the regiment . The colonel told him he could be tried when we got back , and he was happy . There was a great commotion as the regiment broke up its camp and got ready to move . There was the usual crowd of negresses who had been doing washing for the soldiers , to be paid on pay day , and we were going away , no one knew where , and no one knew when we would meet pay day .