I took sick with pneumonia while in this city and was placed in that old court house. In 1862 I was a regular enlisted with General Price in the Confederate army and was with him in Springfield. “How well I remember that old court house,” Frank said, “and good cause I have to remember it. It appeared in the Springfield (Missouri) Republican, September 27, 1898. Years later when Frank visited Springfield as official starter for the horse races at the annual Ozarks Empire Fair he granted an interview to a local reporter. Frank was captured and forced to take an oath of loyalty to the United States. Frank followed Price as far as Springfield where he became ill and was left behind when Price, even though he had won the victory at Lexington, abandoned the entire area to Union forces. Price, as commander of the Missouri State Guard, and aided by Confederate General Benjamin McCulloch, was attempting to uphold Missouri’s right to remain neutral. At eighteen he joined General Sterling Price and fought at the battle of Wilson’s Creek. Frank had a profound love of Shakespeare and carried copies of the bard’s plays in his saddlebags while being pursued by Union soldiers and later law officers. The turbulent times interfered with his choice of a career and sent him hurtling down a different path. He was studious and wanted to become a teacher. The image was largely due to John Newman Edwards, an ex-Confederate major and newspaper editor.įrank was born on the family farm near Kearney, Missouri on January 10, 1843. He refused to surrender and became a outlaw who regardless of facts to the contrary, was considered a Robin Hood type folk hero. He was a Confederate soldier, while still in his teens, who rode with one of the most infamous guerilla fighters of all time, William Clarke Quantrill.
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Jesse died the demi-god of paperback novelist and later Hollywood movie moguls, dreams. Say “outlaw” and “James” in the same sentence and everyone responds “ Jesse James.” It’s almost as if by dying as a outlaw in the nineteenth century Jesse has far overshadowed his older brother who died a law-abiding entrepreneur in the twentieth century.Īlexander Franklin “Frank” James and Jesse’s path paralleled until Jesse’s death.
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