about ten o'clock
I was supposed to belong to the brigade ; it was needless to tell me the name of the State from which my regiment -- from which all the regiments -- came . Had the brigade been a mixed one , the men would have said , `` Thirty-third North Carolina ; '' `` Twenty-eighth North Carolina '' ; that they did not trouble themselves with giving the name of their State was strong reason for believing that all the regiments , as I knew the Seventh to be , were from North Carolina . I continued my walk , picking up as I went several envelopes , which I thrust into my pocket . It must now have been about ten o'clock . The men had become silent ; but few were sitting at the fires . I believed I had sufficient information as to the composition of the brigade , but I had learned little as to its strength . I knew that there were five streets in the encampment , and therefore five regiments in the brigade .