Before night he was allowed to go home with his sister on parole, and Jim and I were detailed to go and help bury the dead of the regiment.
I got up in the morning with a headache, and thought how long it would be before night, when we could play poker again, and I wondered why we couldn't play during the day, as there was nothing else going on.
Before night, a continuous line of works, capable of resisting field artillery, protected our division front.
Indeed, before night, some of us grew quite rich over it.
Lee has some occult object in view, which must soon be manifest.
The President appeals to the people to raise food for man and beast.
Already the process of reorganizing Jackson's corps has been commenced for a blow at or near the enemy's capital.
The general is engaged in some experiments to increase the efficiency of small arms.
Before night, however, some twenty blockaders were in sight of the bar.
Before night, the cattle were all brought back; the fires were lighted, and the Caffres did not give over their repast until near midnight.
They were not five miles from the wreck at that time, and might have returned to it before night.
Before night Stuart, commanding the Confederate cavalry, came on to the rear of his command.
The days were long and it would have given him considerable time before night.
We answered that we had met it a long time since, that it must already be at a considerable distance, and that it would doubtless arrive, before night, at the encampment of the Hundred Wells.
Before night-fall we brought in the horse and the mule, and fastened them by cords to pins at the door of our tent, and made the camels kneel by their side, so as to close up the entrance.
Before night, many of the boys were made glad by the reception of a large mail from the North, which is the first we have received since we left our winter-quarters on the thirteenth instant.
Before night we were sent out on picket in the vicinity of Catlett's Station, where we relieved the First Virginia Cavalry.
We had not thought of the possibility of heavy storms or damaged roads at this time of the year, but, before night came, the people of the village expressed surprise that we should talk of leaving the next morning.
Where we were, a heavy wind was blowing and, before night, rain falling.
Before night, fifteen subjects had passed through our hands and one bust had been made.
In the afternoon we discovered King William's Island, and crowded all the sail we could to get near it before night, thinking to lie to the eastward of it till day, for fear of some shoals that lie at the west end of it.
Before night we opened the headland fair, and I named it Cape St. George.
The event proved that I was not mistaken; for the boats made two trips before night, when we hoisted them in, and made sail to the N.
Even then the rear divisions and trains will hardly reach camp much before night.
Before night it began to rain; and we had five days of rainy, stormy weather, under close sail all the time, and were blown several hundred miles off the coast.
I did not go in the first boat, and was glad to find that there was another going before night; for after so long a voyage as ours had been, a few hours is long to pass in sight and out of reach of land.
As it was, we had little prospect of getting in before night.
She hailed us, and an officer on board, whom we supposed to be an American, advised us to run in before night, and said that they were bound to Valparaiso.
Before night it became noised through the village that the great proprietor had been to the oil regions.
All the time the scalp was moving backward and forward, as if he had just procured a new one, that might be filled up before night, but for the moment was a trifle large.
The officer was right; before night he will have his battery where it can be put in place.
Before night he had advanced his lines within two miles of the Continentals, and the skirmishing parties sent out from the entrenchments of the latter reported that the British forces were resting on their guns.
Before night I shall have my cannon yonder on that level spot you see below the big tree.
After a few miles we got out of the snow and out upon an incline, and in the bright clear morning air the foot of the snowy part of the mountain seemed near by and we were sure we could reach it before night.
If the snow should prove hard enough to hold up the oxen they could probably cross before night, but if compelled to camp in the snow it was a doubtful case for them.
We waited not for breakfast, but sailed away as soon as we could, and reached Chagres, near the mouth of the river, before night.
Before night I started two deer in a brushy place, and they leaped high over the oak bushes in the most affrighted way.
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