With the Union Army in need of additional man-power to defeat the Confederate Army; Pres. Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free.”
Juneteenth, June 19th, 1865 two thousand Union soldiers traveled to Galveston, Texas to make the announcement to residing slaves that they were officially freed.
Juneteenth, a memorable day where slaves and indentured servants in all fifty states received emancipation; freeing a quarter-million American slaves residing in the state.
Order, No.3 issued by General Gordon Granger “19th of June”, 1865:
“The people are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.
The slaves in Galveston were not told they were free until 2 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
