American Civil War · TURNING POINT ·
Juneteenth (1865)
19 Jun 1865 — Union troops reach Galveston and proclaim that “all slaves are free” — two and a half years after the Proclamation. Freedom arrived where the army arrived; Juneteenth remembers exactly that.
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- Reconstruction era (chapter 12 of American Civil War)
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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