about seven o'clock
that their devouring eyes were not the first to mark these historic spots . Tired as they were and burdensome as the heavy knapsacks and still heavier ammunition had become , they heard an aide give the order to bivouac with chagrin ! They so longed to put undebatable ground behind them and really be where the distant coppice might be a curtain to the enemy ! The Caribees marked with indignant surprise that , when they had turned into a field about seven o'clock , the long line following them pushed onward until far into the night , and they envied the contiguity this would give the lucky laggards to first see and engage the enemy ! But they turned-to very merrily , in this first night of real soldiering . They were `` in the field . '' All the parade part of military life was now relaxed .