By Hamil R. Harris | Trice Edney Wire (TriceEdneyWire.com) - Even though President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, he was forced to send federal troops down to Galveston, Texas, to read and post General Order Number 3 on June 19, 1865. That was because some enslaved people had not been freed. Therefore, under the […]

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