On June 19, 1865, (two and half years after President Lincoln’s official Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863), the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. The popular General Order no. 3 read by General Granger [...]
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