Kinloch Falconer
Kinloch Falconer was born on October 28, 1838, in Mississippi to Thomas and Sophronia Falconer. His father was a newspaper editor who owned $2,500 of personal property by 1860. Falconer grew up and attended school in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and he graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1860. After graduation, he worked for his father as a newspaper editor.
He enlisted in the Confederate army on March 27, 1861, and he mustered in as a private in Company B of the 9th Mississippi Infantry. He was promoted to major on April 1, 1862, and he served as assistant adjutant general under General Braxton Bragg.
He returned to Holly Springs after the war and worked as an editor and lawyer. By 1870, he owned $3,000 of real estate and $250 of personal property. He supported the Democratic Party, and he was elected Secretary of State of Mississippi in November 1877. He returned home during a yellow fever epidemic in 1878 to help care for his father and brother. He soon contracted the disease himself, and he died in Holly Springs on September 23, 1878.
Image: Kinloch Falconer (courtesy Wikicommons)
DATABASE CONTENT
| (3987) | Falconer, Kinloch | 1838-10-28 | 1878-09-23 |
- Conflict Side: Confederacy
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Major
- Rank highest: Major
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 6
- (11201) [writer] ~ Kinloch Falconer to Leonidas Polk, 13 August 1863
- (11211) [writer] ~ Kinloch Falconer to Leonidas Polk, 21 August 1863
- (11240) [writer] ~ Kinloch Falconer to Leonidas Polk, 9 September 1863
- (11241) [writer] ~ Braxton Bragg Circular, 10 September 1863
- (11257) [writer] ~ Kinloch Falconer to Leonidas Polk, 18 September 1863
- (11267) [writer] ~ Kinloch Falconer to Leonidas Polk, 28 September 1863
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 2
Groups - Records: 1
- (1) [politician] ~ Democratic Party
SOURCES
1850, 1860, and 1870 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; “Kinloch Falconer” Wikipedia profile, available from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinloch_Falconer.
