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length to retreat, and had nearly been struck dead in his flight with
the butt end of a pistol by a captain of the Rhinegrave regiment. He
arrived here in a sad plight, and upon the side of the imperial army
7600 have been left dead on the field of battle. The body of the
allied army consisted in twenty-six pieces of artillery, one hundred
colours and standards, and many articles of value. This glorious
victory was followed by the capture of Leipsic, and was purchased
dearly by both armies. On the side of the imperialists the Duke of
Holstein died of his wounds as a prisoner, and there were killed
besides the Generals Schoenburg and Erwitte, the Colonels Plankhart and
Baumgartner and Lieutenant Colonel Grotta."

The Baron Starschedel clasped his hands with a pious ejaculation, and
Tugendreich honoured the memory of the fallen enemy and friend with a
tear. "The Saxons," continued Talander, to read with great emotion,
"lost General Bindhof, Colonel Loeser and two Starschedels." "Merciful
God, our cousins!" sobbed the Fraeulein, and the old baron rose
trembling from his chair, took a pen, beckoned to his daughter to
follow him with the ink, and strode to the baronial hall, where he
marked the appropriate crosses on the escutcheons of the beloved
relatives in the pedigree, whilst some tears involuntarily rolled from
his eyes to the ground. Tugendreich broke off some twigs from a
laurel-tree standing near the window to adorn the pictures of the
fallen heroes with deserved wreaths, and the magister, who had followed
them with the letter in his hand, continued to read with mingled
feelings of joy and sorrow, "Colonel Starschedel fell at the head of
his _carbineers_ while resisting an assault of Tilly. On this occasion
the Saxon standard, on which the white dove had perched before the
engagement, fell into the enemy's hands. To leave this symbol of
victory in their hands appeared fatal to Major Starschedel, and a young
officer of an ancient family in the Swedish staff; they therefore took
an oath to rescue it from the enemy's hands. Whilst the Saxon died the
death of a hero, the Swede succeeded. The name of the latter was Count
Gueldenloewe, and he was on the field of battle promoted by the king to
the rank of colonel for his extraordinary bravery, and for having led
the regiment of Courville, after its colonel was made prisoner, three
times against the enemy; also receiving permission to add the above
standard wi