noon
Its compact regiments , brigades , and divisions showed none of the tearing and mangling they had endured , but stood or moved in well-dressed ranks that seemed the embodiment of mighty purpose and resistless force . Around its grand array , a half mile away , lay the somber , portentous line of brown-clad men . Beyond them rose the steeples and roofs of the sleepy old town of Murfreesboro ' , with crowds of men and women occupying every point of vantage , to witness the renewal of the awful battle . -LCB- 111 -RCB- It was now long past noon . The bright sun had long ago scattered the chill mists of the morning , and radiated warmth and light over the dun landscape . Even the somber cedars lost some of the funereal gloom they wore when the skies were lowering . `` There go two brigades across the river , '' said Si .