about ten o'clock at night
Captain Haskell tried to find a place for me in some ambulance , but failed . I went aside into thick woods and lay down ; I slept , and when I awoke the sun was in mid-heaven , and Jackson 's corps was ten miles ahead , but I was no longer ill . The troops had all passed me ; there were no men on the road except a few stragglers like myself . I hurried forward through White Plains -- then along a railroad through a gap in some mountains -- then through Gainesville at dark -- and at last , about ten o'clock at night , after questioning until I was almost in despair , I found Company H asleep in a clover field . Still no rations . Before dawn of the 27th we were waked by the sound of musketry toward the east -- seemingly more than two miles away . We moved at sunrise , and soon reached Manassas Junction , already held by our troops .