ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY
By Dorris Keeven-Franke
Author: Dorris Keeven-Franke
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In 1838, Samuel Audrain emancipated his enslaved man named Absalom White, a preacher and an abolitionist …
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Sadly, it would not be until that following June 19th, that the U.S. Military would arrive in Texas and those that had been freed there were even told of what Lincoln had done! Today we celebrate that day as JUNETEENTH.
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That’s when he overheard a meeting of the area’s Confederates planning an attack on the wooden trestle, the Peruque Bridge as it spanned a huge gorge, where the creek ran through the bottom of it. The Union forces had built a stockade fort just to the west to guard it from just such attacks. Read…