CSPAN2 Book Discussion October 5, 2014
Henry halleck and advice to link and establish something called the lieber code, what was acceptable, unacceptable, which included a bunch a much wider territory that was acceptable in terms of civil society, the freeing of slaves, seizing of private property, the attack upon civilians under certain circumstances. And lieber was a very important person to the history of the rest of the war. So is a lot to be read into the. I dont think lincoln was looking ahead to what would happen after the war. He had a lot in front of him to conduct in the war he had at hand, so i doubt that he was thinking...