Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American HistoryPulitzer Prize Finalist Bancroft Prize Winner ABA Silver Gavel Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of conduct in wartimeconcerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slavesthat shaped the course of the Civil War. By the twentieth