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The last battle fought in Tennessee during the Civil War, that was won by the Union was at Nashville, Tennessee in 1864. Tennessee was a state divided during the Civil War. The state seceded from the Union to side with the South, but many pro Union supporters stayed in the state to fight for the Union when the time came.
Because the Union victory opened the way to the control of the Tennessee River, which, together Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River represented the gateways for the invasion of Tennessee State.
Following the Union victory in the Civil War, Tennessee had already been readmitted to the Union in July 1866, The remaining Confederate States were governed by the North as military districts, as per the Reconstruction Act passed in March 1867.
No, Texas was the 7th to leave the Union, Tennessee was the 10th.
The decisive Union victory at Perryville made the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg give up the invasion of Kentucky and retreat in Tennessee, taking position at Murfresborough.
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