midnight
Harry talked a little with the two colonels , and also with Langdon and St. Clair . Then he returned to his own headquarters . Both armies , making ready for battle to-morrow , if it should come , slept on their arms , while the dead and the wounded yet lay thick in the forest and on the slopes and plain . But Harry was not among those who slept , at least not until after midnight . He and Dalton sat at the door of Jackson 's tent , awaiting possible orders . Jackson knew that Burnside , with a hundred thousand men yet in line and no artillery lost , was planning another attack on the morrow , despite his frightful losses of the day . The news of it had been sent to him by Lee , and Lee in turn had learned it from a captured orderly bearing Burnside 's dispatches .