midnight
The coppice , from soaked mould to smoky treetop , hung in the twilight like a wood in Hades . It was full dusk when Fremont 's advance drew back , retreating sullenly to its camp at Harrisonburg . The stars were all out when , having placed the body on a litter , Ashby 's men carried Ashby to Port Republic . He lay at midnight in a room of an old house of the place . They had laid him upon a narrow bed , an old , single four-poster , with tester and valance . The white canopy above , the fall of the white below had an effect of sculptured stone . The whole looked like an old tomb in some dim abbey .