QUALLS, (WILLIAM) LARKIN, Companies C & E, private, enlisted for 3 years in Lexington, TN on 11/25/62 and mustered at Trenton, TN on 11/29/62 at about 18 years of age.  He furnished his own horse and equipment.  Qualls was one of the 100 or more men who went AWOL from the forts on the Mississippi/Tennessee line in June 1863.  He left on 6/19/63 and was captured at Mt. Pinson, TN.  Taken to Richmond, VA he was paroled on 7/14/63 and sent to Camp Parole, then to Camp Chase, OH.  This episode was later explained away as his being on scout at the time of his capture. Captured again, this time with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, Qualls was wounded in the abdomen when the gun of one of the Confederate guards discharged accidentally on 4/1/64.  The regiment was in Okolona, MS on their way to Andersonville Prison in Georgia.  Qualls died on either 4/1/64 or 4/8/64 and was left in that area.  He was the son of Moses Qualls of Perry Co, TN.  MR #1421

QUICK, RICHARD L, 1st sergeant, Co M, enlisted for 3 years in Adamsville, TN by Colonel Kendrick on 4/1/63 at age 28/29.  He was 5’11” tall, light complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, a farmer, born in Lincoln Co, TN in 1836.  He was appointed sergeant on 12/21/63.  Presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia, and most likely other eastern prisons as well.  He was released through Jacksonville, FL on 4/28/65 in one of the last groups of the 7th to be freed.  Sent to Camp Chase, OH, he was discharged there on 6/26/65 due to disability.  Quick died on 2/1/1889.  His widow, Virginia A Quick, applied for a pension in 1890.  MR #1422

QUILLIAN (QUILLIN), J(ESSE), Co D, private.  He died in Andersonville Prison on 6/20/1864 of acute diarrhea and was buried in the Andersonville National Cemetery in grave #2232.  The New York Times list of deaths calls him Jesse Quillin of Co D, 7th TN.  A note in his records from 4/2/1928 says “it was this day determined that man was not in 7th Cavalry.”  MR #1422a