three o'clock
They left behind in the marshy coppice , and on the wooded slopes and by the embankment , four thousand dead and wounded . The Light Division , Taliaferro and Early , now held the railroad embankment . Before them was the open plain , and the backward surge to the river of the broken foe . It was three o'clock of the afternoon . Burnside sent an order to Franklin to attack again , but Franklin disobeyed . Upon the left Longstreet 's battle now swelled to giant proportions . Marye 's Hill , girdled by that stone wall , crowned by the Washington Artillery , loomed impregnable .