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The State of Scott was a Southern Unionist movement in Scott County, Tennessee, in which the county declared itself a "Free and Independent State" following Tennessee's decision to secede from the United States and align the state with the Confederacy on the eve of the American Civil War in 1861.
May 25, 2021 · The following year, in 1806, Campbell County and Overton County were formed, and much of modern-day Scott County was moved from Jackson County to Overton County. We don’t know exactly when the first white settlers arrived in what would become Scott County.
Jul 3, 2020 · Scott County declared its independence from Tennessee and remained loyal to the United States during the Civil War. It took 125 years to officially rejoin the state.
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Jul 3, 2020 · When Tennessee seceded from the Union during the Civil War, Scott County seceded from Tennessee. So, the State of Scott was created.
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At the time of the secession from the Union, Tennessee's Scott County listed only 61 slaves in residence. It was one of only two counties in the entire state with fewer than 100 slaves. Tennessee was the last state to secede from the Union, in part due to the huge divide in resources and political power between the state's three divisions. East Ten...
In a June 8, 1861 speech delivered on the steps of the Huntsville courthouse by Senator (and future president) Andrew Johnson—a Democrat and himself a slave holder—he stated, "...it is not the free men of the north that [secessionists] are fearing most, but the free men of the South..." Four days later, the people of Scott county voted overwhelming...
Because the area was of little strategic value, the mountainous and somewhat isolated State of Scott was not the site of any fighting on a major scale during the Civil War, with the exception of the minor Battle of Huntsville, fought on August 13, 1862. Facing a force of approximately 2,000 troops and suffering from high levels of desertion and bat...
Ulysses S. Grantreceived over 90% of the vote in Scott County during both the 1868 United States presidential election and the 1872 United States presidential election. The county has remained strongly Republican and pro-union ever since. The proclamation of secession was finally repealed by Scott County in 1986. At the same time, the county petiti...
By 1790, the area that would eventually become Scott County had been ceded by North Carolina to the federal government and was part of the Southwest Territory. In 1796, Tennessee was granted statehood and admitted into the Union.
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The State of Scott was the result of a secessionist movement by Scott County (in the Eastern Division of Tennessee), which officially passed a proclamation during the American Civil War to secede from Tennessee and form the Free and Independent State of Scott in protest of the state's separation...
