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January came in with a hard frost , trying the field troops bitterly , and bringing with it hard work for Wilhelm 's regiment . The 61st belonged to General Kettler 's brigade , which strategically kept the Garibaldi and Pelissier divisions in check . By the middle of January the brigade was in full touch with the enemy . On the 21st the troops broke out from the St. Seine , dashed into the Val Suzon , and after an hour 's conflict with the Garibaldians , drove them out and established themselves on the heights of Daix toward two o'clock . Before them were the rugged summits of Talant and Fontaine , the last spurs of the Jura Mountains seen in the blue distances both of them crowned , by old villages , whose outer walls looked down a thousand feet below . The gray walls , the rhomboid towers of the mediaeval churches , brought to one 's mind the vision of robber knights rather than the modest homes of peasants . Between these two mountains was a narrow valley , through which one caught a glimpse of Dijon , with its red roofs and numbers of towers , and its high Gothic church above all , St. Benigne , well known later to the German soldiers .