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In Scott County, 93% of voters cast their ballots against secession: 385-29. It wasn’t that Scott County was Lincoln country; only a single voter here — a man named Shadrack “Shade” Lewallen — wrote in the Republican candidate (who was not on the ballot).
Nov 10, 2020 · But Scott County’s loyalty to the Republican Party is not driven by racism. Ironically enough, this county’s deep shade of red was created during the nation’s most tumultuous time — when Scott County rejected secession and efforts to preserve the institution of slavery and joined forces with Republican President Abraham Lincoln and the ...
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.
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.
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.
Jun 15, 2022 · Four days later, Scott Countians voted against secession by the largest margin of any county in Tennessee, and Johnson became the only U.S. Senator from the Confederacy who did not resign his seat in Congress.
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Jan 17, 2017 · In June 1861, the same month Tennessee had voted to join the Confederacy, the Scott County Court – the predecessors to the modern-day board of commissioners – voted to secede from Tennessee and form the “Free and Independent State of Scott.”
