Lincoln and Garibaldi - Two Heroes of Two Worlds

In the summer of 1861 rumors circulated across the Atlantic that Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian hero of Italian unification, was coming to America to serve the cause of American unification.

Lincoln and his able secretary of state, William Seward, understood the tremendous value Garibaldi would have to the Union cause. They sent a seasoned diplomat, Henry Sanford, on a secret mission to Garibaldi.

Thus opens Professor Doyle's account of the intertwined histories of Lincoln and Garibaldi, America and Italy, and the Civil War and Italian Risorgimento.

Don H. Doyle is Professor Emeritus of History, University of South Carolina. He is author of several works bearing on Italy and Garibaldi. Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question; The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War; The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the World, and an essay in the The Routledge History of Italian Americans, "America's Garibaldi: The United States and Italian Unification."

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