But the sky was cloudless, and as the sun rose everyone settled down and some even nodded off, which Jake Early regretted, feeling that when the Union soldiers came they should find black folk not at their ease but smartly arrayed as a welcoming company of free men and women.
With five minutes to go until half-time, Hangeland should have given Fulham the lead when he rose high to meet Davies's corner but the Norwegian nodded wide of the left post with the goal at his mercy.