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Happy Juneteenth!
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery.
Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led
by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news
that the war had ended and that all slaves were now free. Note that
this was two and a half years after President Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation - which had become official January 1, 1863. The
Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the
minimal number of Union troops to enforce the new Executive order.
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