noon
I 've thought every time that they could n't stand another such a slaughter , but they 've rallied in those woods there and come out again with their infernal yell , just as before . The last time it seemed to me that we just swept them off the face of the earth , and I do n't see how in God 's name they can stand any more of that sort of thing . It 's worse killing than we gave them at Stone River . It seems to me that hell has let out for noon , and sent all its devils to reinforce them . But it will soon be night now , when they 'll have to stop . If they wo n't we 'll have to depend on the bayonet , for we have n't five rounds apiece left , and I ca n't get more anywhere . '' Si and Shorty had been distributing the detachment along the line , and had posted the Englishman and his squad of Irishmen , with themselves , around the tattered colors , which were now in the hands of the last survivor of the color guard , who was himself wounded .