 | 1896 - 818 էջ
...government, which is an entirely distinct and independent power. Dr. Francis Lieber, in a manuscript note to the "Instructions for the government of the armies of the United States in the field," which was found among his papers after his death, wrote as follows : " As to martial law... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1874 - 392 էջ
...advancement of the general law of nations. " During the American civil war," he adds, " and in April, 1863, the 'Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field ' appeared, which is to be regarded as the very first codification of the laws of war, in.... | |
 | Montgomery Hunt Throop - 1864 - 334 էջ
...sustain these different propositions by the compilation made by Dr. Francis Lieber, and entitled " Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field," which were " approved by the President," and promulgated to the army by an order dated... | |
 | 1865 - 594 էջ
...well to refer, in regard to definitions and principles, to professional writers on the laws of war. In the " Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field," prepared by l)r. Lieber and General Hitchcock, it is said : — " The law of war can no... | |
 | 1865 - 504 էջ
...the local law, that should guide in the administration of criminal justice. Professor Liebcr, in his Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the field, adopted by the War Department, says : "Martial law in a hostile country consists in the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 180 էջ
...published "for the information of all concerned." by order of the Secretary of War, in a pamphlet entitled Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in. the Field. Dr. Lieber, at the close of the war, in 1865, was appointed superintendent or head of a... | |
 | Joseph Brown Heiskell - 1870 - 882 էջ
...belligerents, there is no difficulty in ascertaining the laws of war as recognized by the United States. In the " Instructions for the government of the armies of the United States in the field," prepared by Francis Leiber, LLD, approved by the President, and published by order of the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1872 - 758 էջ
...prepared, for the use of the army, an essay on " Guerrilla Parties;" and the following year he prepared " Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field." The most prominent of Dr. Lieber's literary productions, are a translation of a French... | |
 | Martin Russell Thayer - 1873 - 66 էջ
...of the United States, and promulgated in general orders of the war department, 'No. 100, (1863) as "Instructions for the government of the armies of the United States in the field," is one of the greatest works of his later years. He thereby conferred not only a benefit... | |
 | 1873 - 626 էջ
...preparation of the code of war promulgated in general orders of the war Department (No. 100, 1863), as "Instructions for the government of the Armies of the United States in the field." He also spoke of his pamphlet on " Guerrilla Parties," his tract on " Naturalization,"... | |
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... instructions for the government of the armies of the United States in the field required that " whenever feasible martial law should be carried out in cases of individual offenders by military courts. 
