When he works to help preserve old and tattered battle flags from the Civil War, Tom Schmidt is doing what a Union soldier, ...

On August 20, 1866, President Andrew Johnson had accepted Texas’ new state constitution and issued a proclamation officially declaring that that the war was over.

The Dallas Historical Society will put one of those original handbills on display at the Hall of State in Fair Park starting June 19. A section of the 1865 General Order No. 3.