The officers and men present, of course, returned the fire; nevertheless, apart from other officers, Captains of Cavalry v. Harnier and v. Esmarch, Captain v. Raven, 1st Lieutenant v. Oertzen, Lieutenant Risler, as well as several men, were wounded or killed. Nearly all the saddle-horses were killed or wounded, or had stampeded and could not be recaptured. The total loss of the Staff in dead, wounded, and missing amounts to 5 officers, 2 officials, 23 men, and 95 horses fully harnessed. Different houses in the proximity of the market-place had thereupon been set on fire. Shots had also been fired out of the hotel into which the hand-baggage of the Staff had already been taken. I therefore decided to move with the General Command to the station, and to remain there. The station had to be held, as transport trains were arriving at intervals of an hour. First of all, fresh horses were put into the waggons, and the Staff was rearranged. Owing to the foresight of the Commander of the Ammunition Column, Colonel Stubenrauch, assisted by the 1st Adjutant, Captain v. Kretschmann, the Staff was successfully reformed during the night in spite of the greatest difficulties, and held in readiness at the station. A portion of the Landwehr Brigade also remained here and one company of Infantry Regiment No. 163, in order to guard the further unloading of trains during the night. The heavy baggage of Reserve Regiment of Hussars No. 6 was fired on when moving out of the cavalry barracks, and was forced to return. When, in the evening, the regiment of hussars had returned to the barracks, shots were fired into the buildings from all the surrounding houses. Peace was only restored when all the houses had been set on fire and the inhabitants shot, in so far as they were found with arms in their possession. Numerous explosions of stored cartridges and explosives proved that the attack had been carefully planned and prepared. The next morning the regiment of hussars was able to leave the barracks without any losses, but a patrol of the 1st Squadron in Rotselaer was fired on suddenly by about 50 civilians, and, as a result, 2 hussars were wounded and 1 horse killed.