Original Resolution Honoring the 25th Army Corps

This is a ceremonial House Resolution recognizing and thanking the 25th Army Corps of the Union Army for its actions during the Civil War, specifically their role in capturing Galveston, Texas on June 5, 1865, and for liberating thousands of enslaved people in Texas days before General Gordon Granger’s arrival on June 19, 1865 (often associated with Juneteenth). The resolution highlights the 25th Army Corps as the largest unit of African American soldiers in the Union Army, notes their earlier accomplishments (including occupying Richmond in 1864), and frames their efforts as essential to emancipation and the broader struggle for human rights and racial equality. The measure is purely symbolic, asking the House to acknowledge and thank the Corps; it does not authorize funding or create legal obligations.