VA Secretary Wilkie Issues Statement on Juneteenth
June 20, 2020
June 20, 2020
WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs issued the following statement by Secretary Robert Wilkie on Juneteenth:
Only when the Civil War came to an end was Union Major General Gordon Granger, upon arriving in Galveston, able to inform all that slavery ended in Texas, which became the last area of the country to fully comprehend Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Thus was affirmed Lincoln's words, from his second inaugural, just a month b . . .
Only when the Civil War came to an end was Union Major General Gordon Granger, upon arriving in Galveston, able to inform all that slavery ended in Texas, which became the last area of the country to fully comprehend Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Thus was affirmed Lincoln's words, from his second inaugural, just a month b . . .