Tennessee became the 16th state in 1796. It was the last state to join the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and the first readmitted after the war was over.
Tennessee was one of the original eleven Confederate States. It saw action in its northern regions during the end of the Great War but was not forced to make any territorial concessions to the United States at the end of that war. During the Second Great War, however, a US army commanded by General Irving Morrell ran roughshod through the state, capturing the city of Chattanooga with ease, and Tennessee was readmitted to the United States, though, as it was crawling with Freedom Party diehards who had organized a resistance movement, it would remain under martial law indefinitely.
Tennessee became the battleground state for the 1867 Confederate Presidential election between Robert E. Lee and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Ultimately, Tennessee went to Lee, giving him an Electoral College victory of 69 votes to Forrest's 50. Had Tennessee gone to Forrest, he would have been president.
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