about one o'clock in the
morning
That same day we passed through Givet ; the battalion bivouacked near the village of Hierches half a league farther on . The next day we passed through Fumay and Rocroy , and slept at Bourg-Fidèles , the 23d of June at Blombay , the 24th at Saulsse-Lenoy -- where we heard of the abdication of the Emperor -- and the days following at Vitry , near Rheims , at Jonchery , and at Soissons . From there the battalion took the route toward Ville-Cotterets , but the enemy was already before us , and we changed our course to Ferté-Milon , and bivouacked at Neuchelles , a village destroyed by the invasion of 1814 , and which had not yet been rebuilt . We left that place on the 29th , about one o'clock in the morning , passing through Meaux . Here we were obliged to take the road to Laguy , because the Prussians occupied that which led to Claye . We marched all that day and the night following . On the 30th , at five in the morning , we were at the bridge of Saint-Maur .