A back spasm is one of the most painful life experiences for any person to endure. Muscle spasms in the back can be truly horrific and debilitating. I am intimately acquainted with these unbelievably painful occurrences, since I suffered with them for 18 years of my adult life.
Introduction. Tennessee became the 16th state of the union in 1796. It is just 112 miles wide, but stretches 432 miles from the Appalachian Mountains boundary with North Carolina in the east to the Mississippi River borders with Missouri and Arkansas in the west.
After the Civil War began in April, four slave states â Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee â of the Upper South also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy.