Just before we were captured, being with a score of men cut off from the rest by a rush of Austrians, a rumour spread that the marshal had been killed; but more than this we cannot tell." Two hours later an Austrian officer rode up, with orders that the prisoners were to be marched some distance farther to the rear.
Fergus went up to him and said: "Can you tell me, sir, if Marshal Keith is among the killed?
I am one of his aides-de-camp and, moreover, a cousin of his." "Yes," the officer said, "he has fallen.

His body was recognized by General Lacy, who commands here.

I am on his staff.

The general was greatly affected, for he and the marshal were at one time comrades in arms.

The marshal was shot through the heart, and had previously received two other wounds.