Editing Lieber Code (section)

===Occupation of the Confederacy===
[[File:Sherman-Horseback.jpg|thumb|right|Gen. Sherman at Federal Fort No. 7, after the Atlanta Campaign, September 1864.]]

For the conquest and military occupation of the [[Confederate States of America]] (February 8, 1861 – May 9, 1865), General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]] based his Special Field Orders No. 120 (November 9, 1864) upon General Orders No. 100 (April 24, 1863) for the Union Army. To realize a peaceful [[military occupation]] of the state of Georgia, Special Field Order No. 120 stipulated that "in districts and neighborhoods where the army is unmolested no destruction of such property should be permitted; but, should [[guerrilla]]s or [[bushwhacker]]s molest our march, or should the inhabitants burn bridges, obstruct roads, or otherwise manifest local hostility, then army commanders should order and enforce a devastation more or less relentless according to the measure of such hostility."<ref name="https://cwnc.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/145">{{cite web |last1=Sherman |first1=William T. |title=Special Field Orders No. 120 |url=https://cwnc.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/145 |date=9 November 1864}}</ref>

Moreover, the Lieber Code (General Orders No. 100, April 24, 1863) was the military law applied to the prosecution of [[war crime]]s and for equal prisoner-of-war exchanges between the Union Army and the Confederate Army, regardless of the skin color of the soldier.<ref>{{harvnb|Witt|2013}}.{{pageno|date=February 2023}}</ref>