about four o'clock
As time goes on , however , thar 's a day when I 'm goin ' to take the determination of old Butler more to heart . '' ` Followin ' the gun-boat eepisode I 'm more locoed than ever to get my battery into a fight . An ' at last I has my hopes entirely fulfilled . It 's about four o'clock one evenin ' when we caroms on about three brigades of Yanks . Thar 's mebby twelve thousand of us rebs an ' all of fourteen thousand of the Lincoln people . My battery is all the big guns we-all has , while said Yanks is strong with six full batteries . '' ` The battle opens up ; we 're on a old sugar plantation , an ' after manooverin ' about a while we settles down to work .