three o'clock in the afternoon
The contraction of muscles which had given them claws for hands had cursed each countenance with a hideous grin . Faugh ! I can not catalogue the charms of these gallant gentlemen who had got what they enlisted for . It was now three o'clock in the afternoon , and raining . For fifteen hours we had been wet to the skin . Chilled , sleepy , hungry and disappointed -- profoundly disgusted with the inglorious part to which they had been condemned -- the men of my regiment did everything doggedly . The spirit had gone quite out of them .