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“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.”

John Fabian Witt, Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
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Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History by John Fabian Witt
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