Midnight
As they ate , a shell from one of the retreating Northern batteries burst almost over their heads and fragments of hot metal struck upon the hard road . They ate on complacently . When Jackson had finished his portion he took out one of his mysterious lemons and began to suck the end of it . Midnight was now far behind and the pursuit never halted . One of the officers remarked jokingly that he had accepted an invitation to take breakfast on the Yankee stores in Winchester the next morning . Jackson made no comment . Harry a few minutes later uttered a little cry .