American Civil War · TURNING POINT · 1865

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 had arrived with the army; Juneteenth remembers its arrival in Texas.

When: 19 Jun 1865
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Reconstruction era (chapter 12 of American Civil War)
Atlas: The American Civil War, 1840–1877

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