Two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, on June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger, a Union general, arrived in Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No. 3, officially freeing the remaining enslaved men, women and children just prior to the enactment of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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