Date of Texas Secession

[Elizabeth Gregory]

Texas seceded from the Union on February 2, 1861 (the date of the Ordinance of Secession). A brief but thorough article on the circumstances can be found in the Handbook of Texas at:
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/mjs1.html

Juneteenth (June 19, 1865) marks the day the Emancipation Proclamation (issued by Abraham Lincoln on  January 1, 1863) was read in Galveston.

Elizabeth Gregory
native Alabamian, naturalized Texan