one o'clock
Oh , come inside then . '' The tall figure moved with quick , nervous energy . In ten minutes couriers were dashing from his headquarters in every direction . At one o'clock that night the big movement of his withdrawal from the siege lines began . He had no intention of hurling his men against those deadly trenches . He believed that with a sure , swift start undiscovered by the Confederates he could by a single battle turn their lines at Jonesboro , destroy the railroad and force General Hood to evacuate Atlanta . His sleeping men were carefully waked .