about four o'clock in the
afternoon
It was a terrible field over which they passed , strewed with human wreckage , smoke and dust still floated over everything . They inquired as they advanced of officers who were just arriving upon the field , and one of them , pointing , said : `` There is General Lee . '' Harry and Dalton saw him sitting on his horse on Seminary Ridge , his figure immovable , his eyes watching the Union brigades as they retreated up the slopes of the opposite hill . It was about four o'clock in the afternoon and the sunlight was brilliant . The commander and his horse stood out like a statue on the hill , magnified in the blazing beams . Harry and his comrade paused to look at him a few moments . Their spirits had risen when they saw him .