two o'clock in the morning
While nearly choking , he yet tried to mollify her , while her mother , seeing no harm was intended , pacified her in the soft gutturals of the race . She relaxed her grip , and the brave Virginian packed her down the mountain , wrapped in his soldier cloak . The horses were reached in time , and the prisoners put on double behind the soldiers , who fed them crackers as they marched . At two o'clock in the morning the little command rode into Fort Robinson and dismounted at the guardhouse . The little girl , who was asleep and half frozen in Johnson 's overcoat , would not go to her mother : poor little cat , she had found a nest . The sergeant took her into the guard-house , where it was warm . She soon fell asleep , and slowly he undid her , delivering her to her mother .