and as we learned earlier today, the lieber code protects scientific instruments, books, etc.. after the american revolution, americans contribute -- complained about the way the british treated american pow's. after the war, americans, particularly southerners, complained about the way a british treated americans captured during the war of 1812. at andersonville, as at any of these camps, you could be certain there was a reasonably high death toll because of disease, because of the not very well understood ways in which you have sanitation in a prisoner of war camp, because prisoners of war came wounded. but there were certain things that happened in andersonville that do not happen anywhere else. one of them was the water supply. andersonville is built downstream from a confederate military camp. the confederate military camp uses the river that runs through the andersonville risen as a sort of open latrine. so the creek that is going through andersonville increasingly becomes an open sewer. the water is polluted. and by the end of the war, the only marginally freshwater in t

this once again is liebers's language. all destruction of property not commanded by the authorized officer, all robbery, all pillage or sack iing even after taking place by main force, a rape, wounding, maiming or killing of such inhabitants. so there is a line and that line seems to be physical violence against civilians. you can destroy their property, some of it. not their art. which is nice. i mean -- but there is limits. now, confederates when they read the lieber code complain that it's so broad that as to license mischief under the grounds of military necessity. also, by 1864 when sherman is preparing for the march, lincoln and the union in general had become comfortable with a high degree of destruction of private property. cotton could be burned easily. the contents of homes. if not the homes themselves in areas like missouri and the shenandoah valley. so one can argue that the lieber code, at least as it pertained to the treatment of civilians and their property, was probably honored more in the breach than it wa

issued it as general orders number 100 and it's more popularly come to be known as the lieber code., the lieber code was designed to codify the laws of war and particularly as they pertain to the interactions between civilians and soldiers. one of the most significant sections of the code are articles 14 through 16 which very carefully delineate military necessity. lieber has a pretty broad definition of that that deplores cruelty and deplores acts of vengeance as he would put it, but did allow for the making of war on civilians in specific situations, and in fact, there's a sort of tension internal to the lieber code over what's military necessity and what's going too far. so he does explain further in article 17, wars not carried on by arms alone. it is lawful to starve the hostile belligerent armed or unarmed so that it leads to the speedier subjection of the enemy. he talks about also in a later article, he said the citizen or native of a hostile country is, thus, an enemy as one of the constituents of the hostile state of nation and as such is subjected to the hardships of war.

senator joe lieber men. >> thanks, ed. ed: heather.: texas governor rick perry saying now is time to act on border security. governor perry meeting with national guard troops trained to be deployed. why he believes the entire country is at risk. the americans speaking out about the president's job performance. we have brand new numbers from our fox polls. we'll take a look up next. padvil pm gives you the healingu at nsleep you need, it. helping you fall asleep and stay asleep so your body can heal as you rest. advil pm. for a healing night's sleep. bill: just in from martha's vineyard, president obama will make a live statement 12:15 a.m. eastern time. this would be a situation where the president has spoken out for the second time this week on what is quickly becoming a working vacation on martha's vineyard. what is happening in ferguson, missouri, what is happening in ukraine, we expected to be about iraq. fox will be covering it live. heather: we will talk about that, that is one of the things coming up this hour on "happening now.

so here is debt lieber on the latest on this rash of burglaries on this side of the river. >> the the first one was on june 9th and most recent one was on july 26th. as i said we are not definitively sure they are all committed by the same people but we are looking at them obviously since they are in the same general vicinity. they have been going to the master bedrooms or bedrooms on the second floor residents and looking for jewelry. we had one safe that was taken from one residents that contained some of the residents personal documents. there is quite a bit of jewelry missing. last burglary on july 26th, there is over $60,000 worth of jewelry taken from the victim. >> reporter: as we saw in upper merion and all those wealthy suburbs in the western part, of the the philadelphia suburbs, burglars break nothing to wig homes and one of the best suburbs making off with the biggest stashes. these items are gift idea who you think already everything. this $99 fake head of lettuce where they can store valuables inside have of it and then put it the in the back of the fridge. or things, fa