It was a friendly thing to do, before we fall to slaughterin' one another." They rejoined Colonel Winchester, and Dick worked through a part of the night carrying orders and other messages.

A great movement was going on.

Fresh troops were continually coming up, but there was little noise beyond the Antietam, although he saw the light of many fires.
He slept after midnight and awoke at dawn, expecting to go at once into battle.

Some of the troops were moved about and Colonel Winchester began to rage again.
"Good God! can it be possible!" he exclaimed, "that another day will be lost?
Is General McClellan instead of General Lee waiting for Jackson to come?
With the enemy safely within the trap, we refuse to shut it down upon him!" He said these things only within the hearing of Dick, who he knew would never repeat them.

But he was not the only one to complain.