[4] The resolution allowed the immediate formation of the "Independent State of Scott,"[3][5] which established an enclave community whose sympathies remained strongly loyal to the Union throughout, and following, the war.

—Local farmer[6] In response to the State of Scott proclamation of independence, Tennessee Governor Isham Harris quickly gathered 1,700 soldiers to march to Huntsville and put down the "rebellion."

[2] Because the area was of little strategic value, the mountainous and somewhat isolated State of Scott was not the site of any fighting on a major scale during the Civil War, with the exception of the minor Battle of Huntsville, fought on August 13, 1862.

[7] The area continued to be torn for some time by guerrilla warfare, bushwhacking, and skirmishing, which often took on a brutally violent and vicious nature, often between neighbors.

At the same time, the county petitioned the state of Tennessee for readmission,[3] which was ceremonially granted, even though its secession had not been recognized by the state—nor the federal governments of either the Union or the Confederacy.