midnight
`` We may as well push along while the trail is as clear as it is here . '' `` But we ca n't locate any enemy in the dark . '' `` I doubt very much if any Confederates are so close to us . I was thinking , however , we might spot a camp-fire before midnight . '' `` If they have any camp-fires . '' `` They wo n't do without them in this fall weather unless ordered especially to that effect , Life . An Alabama mountaineer loves his camp-fire almost as well as he loves his moonshine whiskey . ''