Although the official end of the Civil War was at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, not all enslaved Blacks knew until June 19, 1865, when General Lee finally arrived at Galveston, Texas to notify the last enslaved African Americans of their _______ . Today, we celebrate this day as _______ , which most recently became a national holiday in 2021 due to the activism of #BLM protestors.
More than _______ soldiers died in action or disease, which is equivalent to 2% of the entire nation’s population. The total cost of the war was _______ ; the land and economy of the South was devastated.
