Description: In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed General Order No. 100, also known as The Lieber Code, dictating how the Union Forces soldiers should conduct themselves during the Civil War.
Brief description: FRANCIS LIEBER (1798-1872) was a German-born US lawyer and political philosopher. He fought with the Prussian Army in 1815 during the Napoleonic Wars. After being imprisoned in Prussia, he fled to England and immigrated to the United States in 1827, where he became famous for writing The Lieber Code.