About eleven
o'clock
We lighted our fires on the hill before Gross Gorschen and a detachment descended to the village and brought back five or six old cows to make soup of . But we were so worn out that many would rather sleep than eat . Other regiments arrived with cannon and munitions . About eleven o'clock there were from ten to twelve thousand men there and two thousand and more in the village -- all Souham 's division . The general and his ordnance officers were quartered in an old mill to the left , near a stream called Floss-Graben . The line of sentries were stretched along the base of the hill a musket-shot off . At length I fell asleep , but I awoke every hour , and behind us , toward the road leading from the old bridge of Poserna to Lutzen and Leipzig , I heard the rolling of wagons , of artillery and caissons , rising and falling through the silence .