Thursday will mark 160 years since Union forces landed in Galveston with news that enslaved Texans had been emancipated more than two years earlier ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed -- after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
The only known original copy of General Order No. 3, an 1865 decree that alerted enslaved people in Galveston of their freedom, will be on display starting ...
The history of Juneteenth originates with General Order No. 3, which was read by Gordon Granger in Galveston on June 19, 1865. The day would become known as ...