two after midnight
The Northern army had gone to Bull Run with ample supplies , and now they lacked for nothing . They ate long and well , and drank great quantities of coffee . Then they put out the fires and resumed the march toward Washington . They stopped again an hour or two after midnight and slept until morning . Dick lay on the bare ground under the boughs of a great oak tree . It was a quarter of an hour before sleep came , because his nervous system had received a tremendous wrench that day . He closed his eyes and the battle passed again before them .