Editing Lieber Code (section)

{{Short description|American code of conduct for warfare developed during the American Civil War}}
[[Image:Francis Lieber - Brady-Handy.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The jurist Franz Lieber, LL.D., modernized the military law of the 1806 Articles of War into the Lieber Code (General Orders No. 100, April 24, 1863) for the Union Army to legitimately prosecute the civil war (1861–1865) begun by the Confederate States of America.]]

The '''Lieber Code''' ('''General Orders No. 100''', April 24, 1863) was the [[military law]] that governed the wartime conduct of the [[Union Army]] by defining and describing [[command responsibility]] for war crimes and crimes against humanity; and the military responsibilities of the Union soldier fighting in the [[American Civil War]] (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865) against the [[Confederate States of America]] (February 8, 1861 – May 9, 1865).<ref>{{cite book |year=1863 |title=Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field |author=Francis Lieber |edition=1st |publisher=D.Van Nostrand |publication-date=1863 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/governarmies00unitrich|access-date=23 August 2015 |via= Internet Archive}}</ref>

The General Orders No. 100: ''Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field'' (Lieber Code) were written by [[Francis Lieber|Franz Lieber]], a German lawyer, political philosopher, and combat veteran of the Napoleonic Wars.