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There is some circumstantial evidence that at one point during the American Civil War, Lincoln , fed up with the inactivity of Maclellan, offered the command of the Union Army to Guiseppi Garibaldi but Garibaldi rejected the offer on the grounds that Lincoln was equivocal about slavery and wasn't abolitionist enough. OK I know its April 1st but this is after 12.00
What would have happened if he had accepted. Would the war have been won more quickly?
The Guardian, Tuesday February 8 2000
Rory Carroll in Rome
A frayed postcard in a Turin archive has revealed one of the most audacious gambles of the American civil war. Abraham Lincoln offered the command of the northern forces to Giuseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy and terror of the Pope. The US president, his forces hammered by the Confederate army, turned in desperation to Garibaldi, spawning one of the great what ifs of (...) (...)war. Abraham Lincoln offered the command of the northern forces to Giuseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy and terror of the Pope. The US president, (...)