Friday, March 12, 2021

Lieber’s Puzzling Code of War

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Nearly two years into the war, Lincoln’s government announced “General Orders No. 100,” the rules under his armies would conduct their operations. Selected to write the code was Prussian emigre Francis Lieber, a fervent nationalist in Prussia who fled his country while under police investigation in 1825 for plotting to overthrow the government.  After short residence in England, he was recruited to teach at Columbia University, and in the United States “directed the ardent nationalistic emotion with which he had regarded Germany.” Lieber believed he left behind the “bureaucratic ministries and police spies,” though his new employer relied on these as well.

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2 comments:

  1. Here is a good synopsis of the Confederacy. Some I've read are
    obviously biased against the Confederacy. I don't read them.
    Basically, Robert E. Lee was the Confederacy to the troops though he
    commanded Northern Virginia:
    https://www.quora.com/Why-was-it-General-Robert-E-Lee-who-surrendered-on-behalf-on-the-Confederacy-and-not-the-political-leader-Jefferson-Davis
    Should never had been a war brought on by the Union as the South
    was lawful in separating. Screw the Union to this day.

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    1. Thanks and can't believe that the article was history only, no liberal BS.

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