noon
During all this time the road was filled with troops , and with trains of army wagons on their way to the new `` base . '' Very early the next morning , the march was resumed . It was an exceedingly hot day , and the troops suffered severely from the heat . Somers was nearly exhausted when the regiment halted at noon near a church , which the surgeons had already occupied as a hospital . But nothing could disturb the equanimity of Captain de Banyan . If an opportunity offered , he rested , and went to sleep amid the screaming shells as readily as though he had been in his chamber in the `` Fifth Avenue . '' It was not quite so hot as it was at Magenta , nor the march quite so severe as before Solferino , nor the shot quite so thick as at Chapultepec .