four o'clock
The line are to cross first , then the mobile , and then the active battalions of the National Guards . If I judge the colonel rightly he will manage to put us somewhere in front . We stand well after that affair at Bourget , so I have no doubt he will get us across one of the bridges as soon as the line are over . '' Soon after four o'clock it began to get dusk . The colonel , who had been away endeavoring to find out what was the general plan of operations , returned soon after . The officers gathered round him . `` Pontoon bridges will be thrown across the river on both sides of the loop .