Frank Gurley led a guerilla war from the mountains of Madison and Jackson Counties against the Yankee occupation. It led to him becoming a wanted man by the Union authorities for his alleged murder of General Robert McCook on the Winchester Road near New Market, Alabama. Future Limestone County Sheriff Bill Marmaduke rode with his friend Frank Gurley for two years in this guerilla war which helped protect the western approaches to Confederate Chattanooga. Frank Gurley himself became Sheriff of Madison County in 1865 while still under indictment for General McCook's murder, for the murdered general was of the powerful Ohioan War Democrat clan known as the "Fighting McCooks." The modern town of Gurley, Alabama is named after Captain Gurley. (Chapter XXVIII)
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