midnight
The gaps between them and the Northern rear-guard widened , and gradually the flying army of Banks disappeared among the hills and woods . Banks , deeming himself lucky to have saved a part of his troops , did not stop until he reached Martinsburg , twenty-two miles north of Winchester . There he rested a while and resumed his flight , other flying detachments joining him as he went . He reached the Potomac at midnight with less than half of his army , and boats carried the wearied troops over the broad river behind which they found refuge . Most of the victors meanwhile lay asleep in the fields north of Winchester , but others had gone back to the town and were making an equitable division of the Northern stores among the different regiments . Harry and Dalton were sent with those who went to the town . On their way Harry saw St. Clair and Langdon lying under an apple tree , still and white .