JUNETEENTH RELATED SOURCES Juneteenth Related Sources from the Lincoln Papers John A. McClernand to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, September 28, 1862 (Military affairs) - William Alexander to Francis P. Blair Sr., Tuesday, July 28, 1863 (Military affairs in Texas) Nathaniel P. Banks to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, October 22, 1863 (Plan for expedition into Texas; endorsed by Lincoln on cover) - Nathaniel P. Banks to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, November 09, 1863 (Telegram reporting military situation in Texas) - Nathaniel P. Banks to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, December 04, 1863 (Affairs in Texas) - Joseph G. Ramsay to Henry W. Halleck, Saturday, December 12, 1863 (Telegram concerning military affairs in Texas) Abraham Lincoln to Nathaniel P. Banks, Thursday, December 24, 1863 (Reply to Banks's letter of December 6; with copy of Lincoln to Banks, December 29, 1863 on verso) -
Juneteenth Related Sources from the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion Title: Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. ; Series I - Volume 19: West Gulf Blockading Squadron (July 15, 1862 - March 14, 1863) Author: United States. Naval War Records Office Description: Letter dated October 20, 1862, from J. Berkemeier Acting Consul for Austria, Holland, Belgium, Bremen, and Lubeck. Commodore RENSHAW, Commander of the U. S. Fleet in the Harbor of Galveston. Letter dated October 22, 1862, from Commander Renshaw, U. S. Navy, to Acting Consul Berkemeier, responding to Acting Consul Berkemeier, responding to enquiry regarding runaway slaves. U. S. S. WESTFIELD, pp 310-311 Description: Correspondence and reports on operations against and the capture of Galveston in October 1862. Pp 253-263 Title: Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. ; Series I - Volume 22: West Gulf Blockading Squadron (January 1, 1865 - January 31, 1866); Naval Forces on Western Waters (May 8, 1861 - April 11, 1862). Author: United States Naval War Records Office Description: Correspondence concerning the surrender of Confederate forces in Texas in May 1865. Pp 202-208 Description: Report by Rear Admiral Thatcher on the occupation of Galveston by the Union Navy on June 2, 1865. Pp 216-217 Confederate armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 26 (Part I) Author: United States. War Dept., John Description: General Report on operations in Louisiana and Texas in 1862 and 1863 by General Halleck. Pp 3-5 Description: Correspondence from General Banks to General Halleck dated August 17, 1863 concerning supplies needed for an expedition into Texas. Pp 690-691 Description: Correspondence and reports (Union and Confederate) concerning General Bank s successful Texas Expedition in November 1863. Pp 397-447 Confederate armies; Series 1 - Volume 34 (Part I) Author: United States. War Dept., John
Description: Report of troops in Louisiana, Florida and Texas from General Banks to General Halleck dated April 2, 1864. Pp 179-180 Confederate armies; Series 1 - Volume 34 (Part II) Author: United States. War Dept., John Description: Letter from Union loyalist T. G. McManus to General Dana commander of U.S. Forces in Texas dated February 13, 1864 reporting the disposition of Confederate forces in Texas and their fear that able-bodied negroes might fall into the hands of the Federals. Pp 316-320 Confederate armies; Series 1 - Volume 34 (Part III) Author: United States. War Dept., John Description: Letter from John Palfrey, Captain of Engineers, describing the work of five U.S. Colored Troops regiments deployed in Texas dated May 19, 1864. Pp 664-665 Confederate armies; Series 1 - Volume 41 (Part I) Author: United States. War Dept., John Description: Report of a skirmish between Confederate cavalry (150) and African descent Union soldiers (75) at Port Isabel, Texas dated August 14, 1864. Pp 211-212 Confederate armies; Series 1 - Volume 48 (Part I) Author: United States. War Dept., John Description: Reports on the skirmishes on May 12 and 13, 1865 at Palmetto Ranch and White s Ranch by the commanding officer and executive officer of the 62 nd U.S. Colored Troops dated August 10, 1865 and May 18, 1865 respectively. Pp 265-269
Confederate armies; Series 1 - Volume 48 (Part II) Author: United States. War Dept., John Description: Report on the recapture of Brownsville dated May 30, 1865. Pp 827-828 Description: Letter from General F. Steele to General P. Sheridan date June 10, 1865 on the state of affairs in West Texas. Pp 842-842 Description: General P. Sheridan s instructions to General G. Grander upon his arrival Galveston dated June 13, 1865. Pp 866-867 Description: Letter from General G. Granger to General P. Sheridan informing his superior that he had arrived in Galveston and that a brigade of the 25 th Army Corps was there when he arrived on June 19, 1865. Pp 927-928 Description: General Order Number 3 by General G. Granger declares all slaves free in Texas in accordance with the Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth Related Sources from Slave Narratives Narratives, Volume XVI, Part 2, Ex-slave stories (Texas) Gus Johnson. Narratives, Texas Narratives, Volume XVI, Part 1, Ex-slave stories (Texas) Preeley Coleman. Narratives, Texas Narratives, Volume XVI, Part 3, Ex-slave stories (Texas) Josh Miles. Narratives, Texas Narratives, Volume XVI, Part 1, Ex-slave stories (Texas) John Bates.