War crime Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Lieber Code=== {{Main|Lieber Code}} The Lieber Code was written early in the [[American Civil War]] and President [[Abraham Lincoln]] issued as General Order 100 on April 24, 1863, just months after the military [[execution]]s at [[Mankato, Minnesota]]. General Order 100, ''Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field'' (Lieber Code) was written by [[Francis Lieber|Franz Lieber]], a German [[lawyer]], political [[philosopher]], and veteran of the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. Lincoln made the Code [[military law]] for all [[Rules of war|wartime conduct]] of the [[Union Army]]. It defined [[command responsibility]] for war crimes and [[crimes against humanity]] as well as stated the military responsibilities of the Union soldier fighting the [[Confederate States of America]].<ref>{{cite book |year=1863 |title=Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field |author=Francis Lieber, LL.D. and revised by a Board of Officers |edition= 1st |publisher=D. Van Nostrand |publication-date=1863 |publication-place=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/governarmies00unitrich|access-date=23 August 2015 |via= Internet Archive}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page