The next morning a horse was brought round for Fergus, and he at once started, under the escort of a captain and Lieutenant Kerr and fifty troopers, with thirteen other officers taken prisoners at Lobositz.

Seven hundred rank and file had also been captured.
These, however, were to march under an infantry escort on the following day.

Fergus afterwards learned that sixteen officers, of whom eleven belonged to the cavalry, had been killed; and eighty-one officers and about eighteen hundred men wounded in the desperate fighting at Lobositz.
Fergus found that among the Austrians the battle of the previous day was considered a victory, although they had lost their advanced post at Lobositz.
"I cannot say it seemed so to me," he said to the lieutenant, as they rode away from the camp.
"Why, we have prevented the king from penetrating into Bohemia." "But the king could have done that three days ago, without fighting a battle," Fergus said; "just as Schwerin did at Koeniggraetz.
There would have been no need to have marched night and day across the mountains, in order to give battle to an army nearly twice the strength of his own.

His object was to prevent you from drawing off the Saxons, and in that he perfectly succeeded." "Oh, there are other ways of doing that! We had only to keep along the other side of the Elbe until we faced Pirna, then they could have joined us." "It sounds easy," Fergus laughed, "but it would not be so easy to execute.

These mountain defiles are terrible, and you may be sure that the king will not be idle while you and the Saxons are marching to meet each other.
"However, it was a hard-fought battle, and I should think that our loss must be quite as great as yours; for your artillery must have played terrible havoc among our infantry, as they marched to the assault of the village." "Yes.