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“Webster wrote, that “an individual forming part of a public force, and acting under the authority of his Government, is not to be held answerable” for acts authorized by his sovereign.”
― Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
― Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
“Writing from Belgium in the midst of the war, John Quincy Adams predicted that the laws of civilized warfare would likely collapse in the face of Anglo-American armed conflict. “No wars are so cruel and unrelenting as civil wars,” he wrote to his wife, “and unfortunately every war between Britain and America must and will be a civil war.”
― Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
― Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
“Colonel Edwin F. Glenn led a team of water cure experts in the Philippines and was court-martialed for violating the 1863 code’s prohibition on torture. Twelve years later, he drafted the field manual on the laws of war that American officers would carry into two world wars.”
― Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
― Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
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