The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery and was ratified in 1865, the same year the Civil War ended. The amendment, however, carved out a glaring exception that allowed slavery under one condition.

Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, carrying with them orders that all enslaved people were now free. For decades, marking ...

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That was certainly the case for the October 4, 1865, issue. This was a mere six months after the end of the Civil War, at a time when Southern states were still in rough shape overall.

News that the war had ended and they were free finally reached Galveston when Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived in the Gulf Coast city on June 19, 1865, more than two months ...

The reason for the overcrowding came down to money and opportunity. As the Civil War ended in April 1865, thousands of federal prisoners who were held at Confederate prisoner of war camps in ...

President Abraham Lincoln died on this day, April 15, 1865, about nine hours after he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln and his wife had been watching a play at Ford's Theatre in D.C.