five in the morning
That night the battalion went to bivouac before the village of Clépen , two hours ' march from Weissenfels . Other detachments came and rejoined us . The Emperor had arrived at Weissenfels , and all the Third corps were to follow us . We talked only of this all the day ; but the day after , at five in the morning , we set off again in the advance . Before us rolled a river called the Rippach . Instead of turning aside to take the bridge , we forded it where we were . The water reached our waists ; and I thought , as I pulled my shoes out of the mud , `` If any one had told me this in the days when I was afraid of catching a cold in the head at M. Goulden 's , and when I changed my stockings twice a week , I should never have believed it .