midnight
Pennington had been up some time , and as they sat down in the sun he gave Dick the news . `` It was a bad night , '' he said . `` After you staggered in with George , the rebels , in spite of the rain , harassed us . I was waked up after midnight , and the colonel began to believe that we would have to fight again before morning , though the need did n't come , so far as we were concerned . But we were terribly worried on the flanks . They say it was Stuart and his cavalry who were bothering us . '' `` What 's the outlook for to-day ? ''