Tag: general granger
Happy belated Juneteenth, everybody!
Juneteenth is actually June 19, the day on which word finally made it to Galveston, Texas, that the Civil War was over and that Abraham Lincoln had freed the slaves. As the story goes, these 250,000 slaves were the last to hear the good news. It was Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger who read General [...]
Posted by Rob Crotty on June 21, 2010, under - Civil Rights, - Civil War.
Tags: civil war, emancipation, galveston, general granger, juneteenth history, slavery, texas
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