one o'clock
This would be too bad because the procession through the crowded streets at home would be incomplete without captives as a warning to future traitors . They were going to have a load to carry with their blanket rolls , haversack and knapsack and the full fighting rounds of cartridges , but they were not going to leave the handcuffs . If they had to drop anything on the march they might ease up on a blanket or half their heavy cartridges . John found sleep impossible , and was ready to move at one o'clock . The dust was rising already in parched clouds from the dry Virginia roads . He walked to the edge of the woods and gazed over the dark moonlit hills around Centreville . A gentle breeze began to stir the leaves overhead but it was hot and lifeless .