State of Scott

Free and Independent State of Scott
Unrecognized territorial enclave of the United States
1861–1986
Flag
Scott County in 1861
Capital	Huntsville, Tennessee
• Type	Organized unrecognized State
History
• Secession from Tennessee	1861
• Proposed by Senator Andrew Johnson	June 4, 1861
• Tennessee secedes from Union	June 8, 1861
• Symbolic re-integration into the State of Tennessee	1986
Preceded by Succeeded by United States Tennessee United States Tennessee

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. Like much of East Tennessee, Scott became an enclave community^[1] of the Union during the war. Although its edict had never been officially recognized by either the Confederacy or the Union, the county did not officially rescind its act of secession until 1986.