midnight
God bless them all ! '' were the involuntary ejaculations of the soldier boy , as he turned away from the hallowed scene . But the memory of that blessed place , sanctified by the presence of those loving and devoted ones , was shrined in the temple of his heart , ever to go with him in camp and march , in the perils of battle and siege , to keep him true to his God , true to himself , and true to those whom he had left behind him . That last look at home and those that make it home , like the last fond gaze we bestow on the loved and the lost , was treasured up in the garner of the heart 's choicest memories , to be recalled in the solemn stillness of the midnight vigil , amid the horrors of the battle-field when the angry strife of arms had ceased , and in the gloom of the soldier 's sick bed when no mother 's hand was near to lave the fevered brow . The moment when he obtained his last view of the home of his childhood seemed like the most eventful period of his existence . His heart grew big in his bosom , and yet not big enough to contain all he felt . He wept again , and his tears seemed to come from deeper down than his eyes .