South Carolina. In Charleston Harbor Ft. Sumpter was taken by Confederation forces on April 12, 1861.
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No, Texas was the 7th to leave the Union, Tennessee was the 10th.
South Carolina
Not legally. During the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865, a group of states tried to leave the Union, (secede ), and were prevented from doing so.
In 1868, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union. Georgia, however, promptly forced all the black Americans out of their state legislature, which forced the U.S. Government to reinstate martial law. It was once again admitted back into the Union in 1870 along with the final former Confederate states of Texas, Virginia and Mississippi.
No, the south did not really leave the union after the war. the south needed the support and assistance of the union so they could not have left.