Why Tennessee Won The Confederate States During The Civil War

During 1861 Tennessee was divided into three grand divisions. Some confederate states and unionists. Battled for their own political war to see which way Tennessee would go as the confederate states of America. During the battle they threated Tennessee if they didn’t leave the union franklin country withdrew this threat. In East Tennessee most residents remained loyal to the Union. Tennessee joined the Confederacy in 1861 but Tennessee soldiers served in both the Union and Confederate armies. Tennessee was the last state to join the Confederacy. However. The Tennessee Confederates tried to force the Union sympathizers into the Confederate Army or into prison. So an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 men fled to Kentucky to join the Union army there. One look at a map should tell you how important Tennessee was during the Civil War.
The state lay like a protective blanket over the Deep South.
But the state proved impossible for the Confederates to defend. The main Southern army was forced to be completely out of the state when camping at Corinth, Miss. An attempt to strike a blow at the Union “invaders” failed at the bloody battle at Shiloh in April, leaving great hunks of the state under Federal control. Despite these distractions, the Union hold on the state tightened after the critically important rail junction at Chattanooga finally fell under Federal control in November 1863.It was a near thing sometimes but Hood’s army was defeated and broken by the end of 1864.Dozens of Tennessee Civil War battlefields and sites have become parks and museums in the years since the