I was wondering for some time now how this confession of Sherman corresponds to point 16 ( Military necessity does not admit of cruelty--that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, nor of maiming or wounding except in fight...) of the Lieber's Code:
"There had been no resistance at that point, nothing to give warning of danger, and the rebels had planted eight-inch shells in the road, with friction-matches to explode them by being trodden on. This was not war, but murder, and it made me very angry. I immediately ordered a lot of rebel prisoners to be brought from the provost-guard, armed with picks and spades, and made them march in close order along the road, so as to explode their own torpedoes, or to discover and dig them up. They begged hard, but I reiterated the order, and could hardly help laughing at their stepping so gingerly along the road, where it was supposed sunken torpedoes might explode at each step, but they found no other torpedoes till near Fort McAllister"
(quote from Sherman's Memoirs)
Didn't Sherman's order result from his will of revenge? For me, it looks like the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or revenge... but maybe I'm wrong.