Public buildings, churches, and schools had to be hired for the accommodation of the troops, and those others who could not find private persons hospitable enough to take them in were compelled to bivouac where they could.
Then, after issuing instructions for the following day, he gave orders for a bivouac for the night.
Few things are more disagreeable to the traveller than being compelled to bivouac near a town or village in the East.
Monday, February 28, the Brigade moved from its bivouac en route to Um Hosheyo by the desert track, which, almost immediately after leaving the bivouac, lay through brushwood and broken ground.
We had to bivouac out in the desert, as we could not find a suitable place.
The bivouac was laid in a small nullah, running at right angles to the Nile, and the men made themselves very comfortable.
This of course stopped the remainder there for the night, but we got them some food, and they had to bivouac the night there without fire or blankets.
Like its soldiers at their bivouacfires it lay and slumbered beside its burning harbor.
These two men had set up their night bivouac near a clump of cactuses, and they quietly continued to prepare their supper, apparently troubling themselves very little about the approaching travellers.
The bivouac fires formed a brilliant circle round the camp, the soldiers were singing and laughing while narrating to each other the exciting incidents of the battle.
The peons fetched the animals from the corrals while the cavaliers led their horses to the watering place, or went in search of dry wood to rekindle the bivouac fires and prepare the morning repast.
At night the hacienda was surrounded as it were by a glittering halo, produced by the bivouac fires of the rebels who were encamped on the plain.
General Cardenas, leaning sadly over the battlements of the town wall, was reflecting, while his eye wandered over the plain and the camp of the Mexicans, whose bivouac fires were beginning to die out.
On all sides burnt bivouac fires, sending myriads of sparks up into the air, but he could not notice a single sentry.
At sunset no town was in sight; so it was resolved to bivouac in the forest on the margin of a beautiful brook, where rice, tea, and beef, were speedily boiled and smoking on the mats.
In our persons and occupation, we looked as innocent and rustic as a pic-nic party on a summer bivouac for fresh air and salt bathing.
While Alcibiades and Callias found accommodation, such as it was, in the smaller room, the rest of the party were thrown upon the hospitality of the priests, unless indeed, they chose to bivouac outside.
The generals thereupon determined to bring the army together again, and to bivouac on the plain.
On leaving the bivouac the column moved out by the Gilmore road, leading towards the Niagara River.
Peacocke decided to bivouac where he was, so recalled the two companies of the 16th, and made dispositions of his force to guard against a night attack.
The thin and scanty clothing of the men afforded little protection, and while in bivouac their only shelter was the ponchos with which they had been provided before leaving Chattanooga; there was not a tent in the command.
Wheeler's men, thinking we had stopped for the night, had already dismounted and were preparing to bivouac at a respectful distance, when suddenly they beheld Captain Estes with his indomitable squadron charging down the road.
Generals Grant and Buell visited me in our bivouac that evening, and from them I learned the situation of affairs on other parts of the field.
Nothing was stirring, not a single bivouacfire was extinguished, and the English army was sleeping.
They established their bivouac a little beyond Rossomme, and while the Prussians followed up the fugitives, Wellington proceeded to the village of Waterloo, to draw up his report for Lord Bathurst.
The straitened figure of the bivouac rendered it impossible to make arrangements with much regularity in view to defence.
A wilder scene can scarcely be imagined than that presented by the nocturnal bivouac of the locust-like army of the Amhara, flushed by its recent success.
I expected to be obliged to bivouac here, and slightly appeased my hunger with a bit of dry bread that I found in my pocket, for I had not had time to roast one of the ducks.
I had not gone far from my bivouac when I came on the fresh trail of an old buck, which I followed up swiftly and silently through snow half a foot deep, passing several places where he had lain down.
And it was not an all-imagined morrow that we probed with our sharp guesses, for the lights of those low Philistines, the men of the caves, still hung over our heads, and we knew by their yells that the fire of our bivouac had shown us.
I always liked them, but never perhaps so much as when they were thus grouped together under the light of the bivouac fire.
Here we all halted for a few minutes, till I was persuaded to go on to the banks of the Keiskama, where one party was to encamp for some time, and the other to bivouac and dine, previously to crossing the river into Kaffirland.
We reached thebivouac just as the sun was declining.
A thin drizzly rain, cold enough to be sleet, was falling; and as the ground had been greatly cut up by the passage of artillery and cavalry, a less comfortable spot to bivouac in could not be imagined.
I turned my eyes to the ramparts, whose line was marked out by the bivouac fires, through the darkness.
Little do we think, as we sit thus cheerily talking about the blazing fire behind the stone-wall, that it is our last supper together, and that ere another nightfall two of us will be sleeping in the silent bivouac of the dead.
But no developments have yet been made when darkness comes, and we bivouac for the night behind a strong stone wall.
All around me the woods were full of men making ready their bivouac for the night.
I reached the place of our bivouac by sunset, and drinking much mate, and smoking several cigaritos, soon made up my bed for the night.
Sticks were plentiful for firewood, so that it was a good place to bivouac for us; but for the poor animals there was not a mouthful to eat.
We found the Beagle had not arrived, and consequently set out on our return, but the horses soon tiring, we were obliged to bivouac on the plain.
The storm was said to have been of limited extent: we certainly saw from our last night's bivouac a dense cloud and lightning in this direction.
At night we endeavoured in vain to find an uninhabited cove; and at last were obliged to bivouac not far from a party of natives.
They find themselves in the shelter of some ice-clad rocks at last, with ice-clad pine trees nodding over them, and here determine to bivouac for the night.
The troops were not to be had, and Stonewall Jackson ordered his men to bivouac for the night and sent out his details to bury the dead and care for the wounded of both armies.
The boys in blue had begun to bivouac for the night, their camp fires curling through the young green leaves.
Lay in our bivouac all day awaiting transportation by rail to take us to the front.
Asked one man for the privilege of lying down on his porch out of the dew, but he said he "never made a practice of keeping no one", so we concluded to bivouac with a small squad of negro soldiers who were out logging.
They had found a large camp about six miles ahead; watch-fires were burning, but the bivouac was but loosely guarded.
We secured the despatches and horses, and made off for our bivouac with all speed.
The spot thus selected for our bivouac held out also the advantage of enabling us to watch the high road from Guadix to Granada, one of the principal lines of communication of the French army.
It was only at his bivouac in the dark cork forest under the lofty Sierra del Pinar that the thunder of the Castillian artillery burst upon his astounded ear.
We came at last to look upon the hermit's dell as our home, but we did not bivouac there every night.
But now the sun was getting very low indeed, and as we soon came to a piece of high, hard ground, with a view of the country round us for miles, we determined to bivouac for the night.
