Brooks D. Simpson, ed., The Civil War: The Third Year Told By Those Who Lived It (New York: Library of America, 2013).
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed., The Civil War: The Final Year Told By Those Who Lived It (New York: Library of America, 2014) ("On May 26 General Edmund Kirby Smith surrounded all Confederate forces west of the Mississippi. Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston on June 18 and issued General Order No. 3 the following day. His order enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation brought freedom to about 250,000 slaves in Texas and became the basis for the African American holiday of Juneteenth." Id. at 735.).
