Video: 'Tennessee in the Civil War'

(Tuesday, May 7, 1861; during the American Civil War) — Three weeks and four days after the beginning of the Battle of Fort Sumter in South Carolina, which triggered the American Civil War, the Tennessee legislature ratified an agreement today to enter a military league with the Confederate States, becoming the tenth southern state to secede to preserve the enslavement of black people.
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