OK, So The Mail Was Late…
― Over two years after it was issued, the Emancipation Proclamation finally made its way to Texas. ∙ Never mind that it was issued in January of 1863, and that President Lincoln had been dead since April of 1865; I guess the Pony Express was on strike. ∙ General George Gordon of the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas on [...] .





