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Jan 17, 2017 · After Tennessee voted to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy in June 1861, the Scott County Court symbolically voted to secede from Tennessee and form the "Free and Independent State of Scott."
Jul 30, 2023 · Members of County Court voted unanimously to secede from Tennessee and form the Free and Independent State of Scott. Books of minutes from Scott County Court meetings were confiscated by Confederate soldiers when Scott County’s Union regiment lost the Battle of Huntsville in 1862.
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When Abraham Lincoln — nominee of the brand-new, anti-slavery Republican Party — was elected President of the United States in 1860, the writing was on the wall. War was inevitable. By late December, South Carolina had seceded from the Union. Three weeks later, Mississippi followed suit, and then Florida one day later. The dominoes began to quickly...
East Tennesseans were furious over the state’s vote to secede. Political leaders from the region first claimed that the vote was fraudulent, then gathered in Greeneville for a convention. There, they petitioned Gov. Harris to allow the eastern portion of the state to secede and form a state of its own. Harris refused, and in response sent troops in...
It wasn’t until 1986 that Scott County formally voted to rejoin the Volunteer State. That summer, as part of Tennessee’s Homecoming celebration, Scott County Commission adopted a resolution that read, “After 125 years of independence, in this the year of Tennessee homecoming, the Scott Commissioners and people of Scott County have declared the Free...
May 21, 2021 · At the election four days later Scott County voted against separation by the largest percentage margin of any county in Tennessee. Later that year in defiance of the state's action of secession, the county court by resolution seceded from the state and formed the Free and Independent State of Scott.
Apr 12, 2021 · Map showing votes for or against the 1861 Ordinance of Secession in East Tennessee. Counties shaded in maroon: Scott, Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Blount, Sevier, Carter, Hawkins, and Johnson in Northeast Tennessee—voted against secession by an 80% or greater margin; as did Morgan County.
Jul 10, 2024 · On June 12, 1861, four days after Tennessee officially seceded, a popular vote in Scott County came back 541-19 against seceding. As a result of this near-unanimous vote, the Scott County General Assembly approved its own secession from Tennessee later that year.
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On June 8, 1861, Scott Countians voted overwhelmingly against secession. Later, County Court would vote to approve a resolution announcing Scott County’s decision to secede from Tennessee and form the Independent State of Scott.
