Special Election on Secession Convention, Feb 9, 1861 Special Election on Secession, June 8, 1861 For Against For Against Fentress 334 (51%) 325 (49%) 128 (16%) 651 (84%) Morgan 13 (2.6%) 488 (97.4) 50 (7%) 630 (93%) Scott 29 (7%) 385 (93%) 19 (3.5%) 521 (96.5%) Overton 563 (39.5%) 863 (60.5) 1471 (80%) 364 (20%) Table 1. Results of Special Elections (from Campbell 1961 and Fisher 1997). Theme 2. Military Occupation Intermittent Army Occupation by small forces in . Pro-Union Home Guard organized to protect border and watch for Confederate invasion. Some recruitment set up nearby. Camp Clio, Pulaski County. Harassment of Pro-Confederate citizens and curtailment of trade with Tennessee. Brief Confederate military occupation (3,565 troops) in Wayne and Pulaski Counties, late 1861, early 1862, prior to Battle of Mill Springs (Jan. 19, 1862). After Knoxville Campaign of August-Sept. 1863, less Union occupation and area seen as backwater. Still some effects as soldiers take livestock and goods. Confederate Occupation July 1861 (District of East Tennessee, Generals Zollicoffer, Kirby Smith, Buchner in command with HQ at ) until Aug-Sept 1863. Confederate force guarding border, suppressing Pro-Union activities, arresting Pro-Union leaders, and raiding Pro-Union farms. They suppressed local government and services, since these were controlled by Pro-Unionists. Most Upper Cumberland Plateau population Pro-Union. November 1861. Pro-Union men under William Carter burn seven of nine railroad bridges. This leads to martial law and crackdown on Pro-Union citizens. Supposed to be pre-cursor to Union invasion under Gen. George Thomas, but it was called off by Gen. William T. Sherman in . wanted to capture Pro-Union E. Tennessee since the beginning of the war. Mid Nov. 1861 – 3565 Confederate Zollicoffer camped at Wartburg, Nov. 22-24, left for , Battle of Mill Springs January 19, 1862.
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