♪ Juneteenth also known as Emancipation Day commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States on June 1918, 65 Major General Gordon Granger led soldiers to Galveston, Texas, to deliver the message that the war was over.

The union had one and slavery had ended before that happen.

And slave man were allowed to enlist in the U.S. colored troops to self Emancipate a Juneteenth event over the weekend at an African-American cemetery in Lexington celebrated Kentucky soldiers who fought for their freedom and the freedom of others.

>> Most of the other Juneteenth events are fun hours.

He's always been very dedicated to the man who fought this particular cemetery was organized in 18.

69 by former enslaved people.

And that's 4 years short of the end of the Civil war and the passage of the 13th Amendment.

154 solders.

>> Who have been identified and over a dozen headstones have been dedicated in their honor.

Black soldiers from 20 regiments are interred here, came nose and offers a rare glimpse into the lives of the war soldiers and families who service any Syria's says the term to future for freedom for African Americans in the preservation of United States slavery.

We need legally protected in Kentucky.

>> However, see the revolution were planted in Lincoln things, population and African-Americans themselves do not only for the government policy to seize their own freedom.

Cano says from now to Lucian occurred in 18, 64, we had more man register during the Civil War.

>> Than any other state except for Louisiana on April 18th 18, 64 jail.

Steven Burbridge issue.

General orders number 34.

>> Which authorized the restricted in looking at the list of have in your community, U.S. Army.

The U.S. Army was authorized to little is able body free African-Americans and is leading with the commission of their is labor who are compensated by the federal government.

The U.S. Army organize, recruited and trained.

22 U.S. colored troop residence in Kentucky.

8 of the 20 to organize at Camp knows him the largest U.S. CT recruiting center in the state in the 3rd largest in the country in total 23,703 African-American men, the majority of them enslaved something Nancy painted by joining the Army in Kentucky.

Over 10,000 serving regiment organize that camp will see if you do any studying of how the people in Texas actually celebrated those first 2 years.

>> They were just as stunned that they had been freed and we're told they had to stay where they had been enslaved to work out agreements with their former owners of that work.

But one of the other things they did to celebrate was to find the graves of them and the African American soldiers who had been killed.

Put them in a sacred place, a cemetery.

>> We have to tell that story.

♪ >> African-American cemetery number 2 has a website with profiles of those buried at the cemetery as well as information on a self-guided walking tour