In 1862, Reuben Stocks, a soldier of the 78th IL Inf, while at his home on Eight Mile Prairie, was called to his door one night, and there shot and killed by unknown parties who have never been discovered. The same year, when the 100 and 28th IL Inf was at Crab Orchard Bridge in Jackson Co, Terry Crain and John Burbridge quarreled, and the former struck the latter on the head with a stone from the effects of which he died. In Aug 1876, Crain was tried and sentenced to 15 year in the penitentiary, but was released after serving 2 years. Also in the year 1862, William Stacey stabbed and killed Henderson Tippy while they were bathing in the Crab Orchard near Marion. They were boys, and Stacey was tried and acquitted. In Dec of that year (1862), an unknown party shot and kiled James Baker in Bainbridge Prec. It was thought this was done because Baker was reveaing the whereabouts of deserters from the army. In 1863, James Emerson was killed by an unknown party, in the woods near Blairsville, while hunting his horses. A gang of bad men known as the "Akin Gang" and supposed to have been composed of George Akin and his son John, Allena nd Charley Gilde and others, infected the north part of the county in 1863, when and where several murders were committed, and many citizens robbed. Dr Bandy was taken out and whipped unmercifully, and George Cox was attacked in his house and fired on several times. This band soon got so large that it became unwieldy, and they got to stealing horses. Several of them were arrested, tried and bailed, and left the county. James Chenoweth, was arrested and put under bail, and then left, forfeiting his bond, and moved to Nashville where he died. The same tear, Daniel Robertson was killed in Lake Prec, by some unknown parties in the disguise of soldiers, at the instance, it is believed, of this man Chenoweth. The same year James Stilley was killed with a hoe, in the hands of Ben Batts, in the field of the latter, where Stilly went and engaged him in a quarrel. Batts ran away. Also the same year, William Moulton was killed by unknown parties. Several persons were arrested and tried for this offence, but there being no evidence against them, they were acquitted.
One morning in 1864, Smaule Moore was found dead, at the door of a saloon in Jeffersonville. A man by the name of Washum was tried for the offense and found not guilty. During this year, Vincent Hicncliff shot and killed James Prickett, a young lawyer of Grassy Prec, at Blairsville. Prickett was appearing in a case against the administrator of William Hinchcliff's estate, and he and Vincent got into a fight with the result above mentioned. Hinchcliff was tried and aquitted on the grounds of self defense. On the 24 Mar 1864, the Parkers and Jordans got into a difficulty in Marion. Several shots were fired. Richard Parker was shot down by Richard Jordan, when William C Parker, son of Richard, being at a distance ran to the assistance of his father, and shot and killed Jordan. Parker was put under bonds; and not being brought to trial, he remained in the county about 2 years, and then moved to Colorado. No forfeiture of his bond was ever taken. Returning to Franklin Co in 1887, with his invalid wife, who died there, he was arrested and brought to trial at Marion, in April of the year, and acquitted on the ground of acting in defense of his father. He was ably prosecuted by Judge George W Young and his associates, and defended by Judge William J Allen, Hon FM Youngblood and others. In 1865, Isham Canady was shot and killed in a drug store on the west side of the public square in Marion, by JH Duncan, who was afterward tried and acuitted on the ground of self-defense. The same year Christopher Howard, a rebel sympathizer, was killed near Herrin's Prairie by some unknown party. In 1866 WL Burton and Samuel McMahan were both shot and killed, in a general political fight at Sulphur Springs. Dixon B Ward was tried for the killing and acquitted, there being no evidence against him