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Jun 19, 2020 · Today, 155 years ago, Major Gen. Gordon Granger marched into Galveston, Texas with nearly 2,000 Union solider to announce the Civil War had ended and all enslaved people were free.
Gordon Granger (1821-1876) was a major general in the United States Army during the American Civil War who headed the infantry division that captured Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan during the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864.
Nov 19, 2013 · Gordon Granger is typical of the professional Army officer that reaches high rank in the Volunteer Army but did not truly excel. This book opens that world to the reader, depicting more of a typical experience for West Pointers during and after the war. Granger is much more than “the general who played with cannons”.
Jul 9, 2019 · Upon arrival and leading the Union soldiers, Major Gen. Gordon Granger announced General Order No. 3: "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive ...
Jun 19, 2015 · On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger and his regiment arrived in Galveston, Texas to spread the good news that the Civil War had ended and all enslaved African Americans had been freed by President Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Nov 15, 2013 · General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind "Juneteenth" Robert C. Conner. Casemate, Nov 15, 2013 - History - 264 pages.
Union general Gordon Granger is the subject of this portrait made in a studio run by the renowned glass-plate photographer Mathew Brady. On June 19, 1865, Granger led 2,000 troops into Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order No. 3, which proclaimed the end of slavery in Texas—a remote state that had not enforced the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Read more about: General Gordon Granger
