Upset with Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, for having manipulated the Independent Republic of South Carolina into firing on Fort Sumter, Tennessee secedes from the compulsory Union.
[restored 2/1/2025]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 6
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Article X of Amendment
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 284.