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During the Civil War, Nathan Bedford Forrest and his horsemen were in and out of the
Hickman, County area. Frank James had used this area to travel from Missouri while
going to Tennessee. Hickman county lies along the Mississippi River, the place of several
civil war battles, as Quantrill and others traveled through during January, 1865.

Frank James remain in Kentucky and Tennessee after his surrender in August, 1865 and
did not return to find his brother Jesse wounded for nearly 6 months. As Jesse continued to recouperate, the Liberty bank was robbed of its possessions. Frank left Missouri and returned to Tennessee. Always absence from Missouri, Frank James traveled through the Hickman county area many times, as the James gang continued to operate after the Liberty bank robbery. Jesse continued to recouperate from the bullet lodged in his lung: as Frank James roamed near and far.

The mis-conception of Frank James is how many assumed the ideal that the boys farmed around the Clay County, area. Frank James actually made his living with his gun's after
the war. There was no money in holding a plow handle. The "exact account" of just how long Frank James was actually at the old James Farm was recorded by Robertus Love in the interview Frank's mother given to him after 1900, before Frank James left on his Wild West Show.

Frank James; Leader and Organizer of the James-Younger Gang eluded many lawmen
after the "James name" was directly tied to a robbery in December, 1869. Frank James
and the "James name" was actually given away, when a horse tied to one member of the gang was left behind at the scene of the Gallatin robbery. As Evidence continues to give
credit to Frank James as being the shooter at the Liberty bank robbery on February 13,
1866, Frank James operated the James Gang under "Evasive Conditions" for 3 1/2 yrs
until the name "James" became known unto the public. Opposite to his brother Jesse,
Frank James had remain more diametrically opposed to any knowledge by a "James"
being tied to robbery. The horse left at the scene of the Gallatin robbery would change
Frank James' life and the strategies used by the gang, as the name Frank James and
Jesse James was now known unto all.