Juneteenth of New Bern

Celebrate Freedom with Juneteenth of New Bern

Major General Gordon Granger and Union Troops arrived in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865. He brought the news that the war was over and persons held as slaves were free. In reality, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery on January 1, […]

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