noon
`` Some of you had better go over to the camp there and get our axes . We 'll have to cut a road through the cedars if we take these guns off , '' said Harry , tieing a handkershief around the gaping saber wound in his temple . `` The rest of you get around to the right , and keep a sharp look out for the flank . '' So they worked their way back , and a little after noon came to the open fields by the pike . ----- As the wagon rolled slowly down the pike toward Nashville Rachel , in spite of anxiety , fell asleep . Some hours later she was awakened by the driver shaking her rudely . `` Wake up ! ''