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- Four days later, the people of Scott County voted overwhelmingly (541–19) against Tennessee's referendum on secession from the Union, and later that year the county court voted to approve the Scott County General Assembly's unanimous resolution approving of its own secession from Tennessee.
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It was also here that Scott County Court voted later that summer to secede from Tennessee and form the Free & Independent State of Scott. If Tennessee can secede, so can Scott County U.S. Senator Andrew Johnson visited Scott County on June 4, 1861 to whip up anti-secession support.
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 · 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. They were never recovered, and thus, there is no official record of Scott County’s secession.
- The Republic of Winston. The locals living in what we today know as Winston, Cullman and Blount Counties in Alabama didn’t raise crops on large plantations and had no use for slaves.
- The Free State of Jones. The Confederacy was a great place to be if you were a wealthy, aristocratic, slave-owning landholder. For everyone else, it wasn’t so hot.
- The State of Scott. The border areas between Union Kentucky and Confederate Tennessee were filled with people who sided with either cause. Scott County, Tennessee was one of these border areas, but its people were wholly committed to staying in the Union.
- Arkansas Peace Society. Searcy County, Arkansas did not get on board with secession the way the rest of the state did. In the northern part of the state, where Searcy County is located, many of the local remained pro-Union and did not want to see the state secede.
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 3, 2018 · Four days later, Scott County voted against secession by the widest margin of any county in the state — 521-19. Only 3.6 percent of the voters here wanted to leave the Union. The vote was 630-50 in Morgan County, and 651-128 in Fentress County.
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Jul 10, 2024 · It’s about the State of Scott – a county in Tennessee that declared itself a free and independent state when Tennessee seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy, kicking off the Civil War.
