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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 after Lincoln received just one vote in Scott County in 1860, he received a majority of the votes here in his 1864 re-election bid — even though the votes were not officially recorded because the federal government officially recognized Scott County as part of Tennessee, which had seceded.
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 · In 1861, Scott County Court voted to formally secede from Tennessee and form the Free & Independent State of Scott. The move came after Scott Countians voted to reject secession by the largest majority of any county in Tennessee.
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.
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.”
Jul 3, 2018 · It was here, at Scott County’s first courthouse, built in 1851, that future U.S. President Andrew Johnson delivered a fiery speech prompting Scott Countians to vote against secession, and where Scott County leaders later voted to secede from Tennessee.
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