re: #183 Jay C

Fascinating stuff. Especially seeing the original document.
Though I’m still wondering how/if, in the 2-1/2 years between the effective date of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (1/1/1863) and “Juneteenth”, NO slaves in Texas ever got wind of the abolition of slavery?
Or was Granger’s order just intended as a formal confirmation of facts that were already known, I.e. intended as much as a reminder to the (now-former) slaveholders, as to (now) freemen?

At the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, Texas wasn’t part of the US. None of the Southern states were.