The scenes Hedges captured were often unbearably bleak.
Many of the Union wounded and captured were killed by the Confederates.
Those who resisted were killed, and those captured were more likely to be executed than taken prisoner.
The French losses (killed, wounded, and captured) were about 8,000 and those of the allies about 5,000.
It was not clear if this indicated that at least some of those captured were not Iraqis, but militants from other Arab countries.
Details of precisely how Acellam was captured were not available, but some analysts said it was possible he had just walked into the hands of Ugandan army officials.
I can understand why some of those board reacted violently but you never hear about how some of the soldiers captured were treated very fairly.
Traditionally, the numbers captured were relatively small, and many were returned to their families after the talks which ended each inter-tribal spat.
They have acknowledged two cases in which prisoners captured were transferred out of Iraq and then returned, but they have declined to comment on whether there might have been others.
Gen. Rick Lynch, the spokesman for American forces here, said most of the foreigners captured were from Egypt, where 78 prisoners were from; followed by Syria, with 66; Sudan, 41; and Saudi Arabia, with 32.
Statistics on the number of Taliban "leaders" killed or captured were frequently used by the former Isaf commander, and now CIA director, General David Petraeus, to prove his claims that his forces were making progress on the battlefield.
