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9th ARKANSAS INFANTRY AND 1st ARKANSAS (CONSOLIDATED) MOUNTED RIFLES OFFICER’S PAROLE: LT. H.C. FALLON, REGIMENTAL ADJUTANT, GREENSBORO MAY 1, 1865

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This is a scarce May 1, 1865, printed parole filled out at Greensboro, NC, as part of the surrender and parole of Johnston’s army for Lt. Henry Clay Fallon, then serving as Adjutant in the 1^st Arkansas Consolidated Mounted Rifles, the shattered remnants of Reynolds’ Arkansas Brigade consisting of the 1^st and 2^nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles, and the 4^th, 9^th, and 25^th Arkansas Infantry, all of which numbered just 196 effectives by the end of April 1865 and were organized into one regiment under Col. Henry G. Bunn and assigned to Featherston’s Brigade. They were then sometimes referred to simply as the 1^st Arkansas, but it was necessary to distinguish them from another consolidated Arkansas regiment so designated in Govan’s brigade and “Mounted Rifles” (with or without the “consolidated”) is found on their muster rolls and paroles as here: “Lieut. H. C. Fallon Adjt 1st Ark Mted Rifles.”

This measures 4-1/8” X 7-3/4” and is signed by two officers supervising the parole: at lower left a U.S. officer at lower right Colonel Bunn. The paroled men had been offered free rail transportation home and there are signature authorizations on the front and back acquired during Fallon’s trip back. One on the face is dated at Red Bluff (South Carolina) though only “MAY 1865” of a date stamp is clear. The reverse has two handwritten notes: a provost marshal’s pass in brown ink dated Montgomery, Alabama, May 29, 1865, and a brown ink note dated Meridian, Mississippi, May 31, 1865, for issue of one ration. Overall this rates good for condition, with the parole text and filled-out portions very legible. There are two small, 1/8” punched holes at lower center and folds, with tape repairs on the reverse to two vertical folds, but the obverse displays very nicely. Please see our photos.

Fallon had been serving as Adjutant in the 9^th Arkansas and was carried over in that post when the regiments were consolidated. Fallon was born in Kentucky March 17, 1840. The 1860 census picks him up as a painter in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where he enlisted, mustering into state service July 25, 1861, as a member of the Bradley Guards, a militia company that became Company A of the 9^th Arkansas Infantry. He is listed as a musician but a note in his file indicates he acted as a musician for only two months and fifteen days. He was elected 2^nd Lieutenant as of April 16, 1862, at Corinth, in the wake of Shiloh, and 1^st Lieutenant three weeks later, on May 8, 1862. Records show him present throughout his service, but with a 25-day leave Oct 7, 1863. He was appointed acting regimental Adjutant as of June 19, 1864, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the death of Adj. J.J. Dunlap on June 18, with the appointment officially made October 29 and confirmed on Dec. 21, giving him rank from Sept. 27, 1864. He held this rank through the rest of his service as shown on this parole and recorded on an April 28 muster roll of the consolidated regiment made at Jamestown.

The 9^th moved to Pocahontas, AR, in July, was present at Belmont, though on the Kentucky side of the river, were in the defenses of Bowling Green in the winter 1861-62, until its evacuation, were merged with the Army of Mississippi in late March, and saw heavy action at Shiloh, losing 17 killed and 115 wounded in fighting at the Hornet’s Nest, with Albert Sidney Johnston mortally wounded close by them. They returned to Corinth, taking part in the Battles of Corinth and Iuka, and later suffered 16 casualties as Coffeeville. In early 1863 they took part in the campaigns of Port Hudson and Vicksburg, fighting at Champion Hill in mid-May, but joining Johnston as part of Loring’s Division and taking part in siege of Jackson Vicksburg’s fall. As part of the Army of Tennessee, they fought at Chickamauga in September, then the Meridian Campaign in early 1864, followed by the Atlanta Campaign, seeing action at Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, Pickett’s Mill, Kennesaw Mountain, Dug Gap, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Ezra Church, and Jonesboro. They then took part in Hood’s fighting at Spring Hill, Franklin, Nashville, and the rearguard action at Suger Creek (Tennessee, near the Alabama state line) in late December, then made their way to the Carolinas by way of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, joining Johnston in time to fight at  Bentonville in March 1865 as part of Walthall’s Division in Stewart’s Corps.

Fallon appears in the 1870 census in Mississippi as a furniture merchant, and seems to have moved to Texas about 1872, listing himself simply as a merchant in Waco in 1880 and in 1910 as a merchant running a “racket store” (i.e., a five-and-dime) in Parker, and moved about 1931 to Dallas, where he lived with a daughter until his death at age 94 in December 1934. He seems to have married a number of times and was survived by four children according to a newspaper obituary.

This is a scarce document that would be a particular good addition to an Arkansas collection. [sr][ph:L]

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