In addition to its input from Lieber's widow the book reprints excerpts from Lieber's journals and letters that are not available elsewhere.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
"Published a year before Lieber's code, this pamphlet contains several ideas that were incorporated into that work.
A Civil War-era treatise addressing the power of governments in moments of emergency The last work of Abraham Lincoln’s law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost—until Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt discovered it in ...