sentences:  The survivors consisted of 44 officers, 236 soldiers, 10 civilians and 33 prostitutes and their children.According to some witnesses, Silvestre, upon seeing the disaster, went into his tent and committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.Whether dead by his own hand or like most of his staff killed in the turmoil of the retreat, the only remnant of Silvestre appears to have been his scarlet and gold general's sash.