Garibaldi Accepts Lincolns Offer

[Gwax23]

So I was recently reading up on this boss....Garibaldi. He was the man.

What shocked me besides hes travels and adventures was this offer made to him by Secretary of State Seward to become Major General's commission in the U.S. Army. Garibaldi sent a counter offer insisting on Commander in Chief of its armed forces if Lincoln declared at the time (Before emancipation proclamation) that the wars primary goal was the Establishment of slavery.

What if this counter offer is accepted and Garibaldi leads the Union army (If this is even possible) or on a lesser what if...what if he simply accepted the first proposal and worked from there?

 

[wolf_brother]

Post-ACW Garibaldi leads a veritable f-ton of Americanized (read: liberal republicans) but still native born Germans, Irish, Italians, and various other Europeans back across the pond. Mothra-sized butterflies in the 1866 and 1871 wars.

iirc Garibaldi once meet Palmerston and told the PM something along the lines that he planned to 'liberate' various other 'occupied' European nations, such as Croatia, Hungary, Poland, etc. For the former two at least, 1866 could be a game changer.

 

[Fenrir_Angerboda]

I vaguely remember someone writing a TL about this, and I remember something about Grant fighting in Italy, but I don't Remember the name of it.

 

[robcraufurd]

What if this counter offer is accepted and Garibaldi leads the Union army (If this is even possible) or on a lesser what if...what if he simply accepted the first proposal and worked from there?

Garibaldi didn't simply accept the first offer because if slavery isn't at stake,all he's doing is help the North subjugate an independence movement- he'd be fighting for Austria rather than Italy. And agreeing to the counter-offer loses Lincoln the border states.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

I vaguely remember someone writing a TL about this, and I remember something about Grant fighting in Italy, but I don't Remember the name of it.

I believe you're referring to this TL: The Bald and the Royal Eagle can fly together! by RyuDrago.

It was a really cool timeline, but it seems to have died.

 

[Dathi THorfinnsson]

What shocked me besides hes travels and adventures was this offer made to him by Secretary of State Seward to become Major General's commission in the U.S. Army. Garibaldi sent a counter offer insisting on Commander in Chief of its armed forces if Lincoln declared at the time (Before emancipation proclamation) that the wars primary goal was the Establishment of slavery.

Abolition, surely.

Garibaldi didn't simply accept the first offer because if slavery isn't at stake,all he's doing is help the North subjugate an independence movement- he'd be fighting for Austria rather than Italy. And agreeing to the counter-offer loses Lincoln the border states.

what he said.
More than just the border states. Preserving the Union was something that lots of New Yorkers, for instance, could get behind, while 'abolishing slavery', while a nice idea, wasn't anything many of them would spend any blood on.

Sure there were a chunk of the population that fought the war as one against slavery, but that chunk was ? 10% ? 20% ? not nearly enough to run a war with.

 

[Derek Jackson]

What about after the Emancipation proclamation, and perhaps with a special role in USCT