noon before
They finally got the team untied , and Si drove over to the company ground . The regiment had been gone some time , a detail having been left to load the wagon . After getting out upon the road the mules plodded along without objection , and Si got on famously . But having lost his place in the column in consequence of the delay , he was obliged to fall in rear of the division train , and it was noon before he got well started . Along towards evening Si struck a section of old corduroy road through a piece of swamp . The passage of the artillery and wagons had left the road in a wretched condition . The logs were lying at all points of the compass , or drifting vaguely about in the mire , while here and there were seas of water and pits of abysmal depth .