Is there a possibility for International Brigades to fight in the American Civil War, especially on the Northern Side?
To get international volunteers for the Union, the emancipation proclamation probably needs to happen earlier and should be more immediately meaningful.
To get international volunteers for the Confederacy, the emancipation proclamation should never happen.
I think the problem is that it will be seen by a lot of people the world over to be just the feds trying to keep part of their territory and not, unlike the SCW, a political fight. Maybe if there is a fear of some of the liberalisation being wounded back in other countries if the CSA won.
There's at least one country that would see it as a political fight, especially once the Emancipation Proclamation is issued.
Liberia.
The trouble is that there aren't enough Americo-Liberians, they've got problems of their own, and they don't have the wealth to finance an overseas military intervention. But if some African-American adventurer got the idea of recruiting a Liberian volunteer regiment, and raised some money by subscription...
Do you have a source?Union recruiting agents were active throughout Germany, if I recall correctly.
i heard that Canadians went and fought for the NORTH but do not remember the source
For the south, a true international brigade sent by another country would have been tantamount to that country intervening in the war, and for the North, I still don't think it would be politically feasible to just invite another country's forces in.