about one in the
afternoon
`` So I heard this morning , colonel , and yet you saw him the night of the battle , did you not ? '' `` Not the night after , but the night before . We left him with the wagons when we marched to the ford . I was knocked off my horse about one in the afternoon , just north of the cornfield , and they got me back to the wagons with this left shoulder all out of shape -- collar-bone broken ; and he was n't there then , and had n't been seen since daybreak . Somebody said he was so cut up when you were hit at the Gap . I did n't know you were such friends . '' `` Well , we 've known each other a long time -- were together at Harvard and moved in the same set ; but there was never any intimacy , colonel . ''