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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jacob Clawson Quick

(1833 - 1912)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 29 year old well digger from Lavaca County, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 22 March 1862 at Hallettsville, TX.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was appointed 2nd Corporal on 22 November 1862 and promoted to 5th Sergeant on 20 May 1863. He was wounded by a gunshot to his right arm at Chickamauga, GA in September 1863 and afterward listed as absent without leave in Mississippi (or Alabama) and disabled - he may have lost his arm. On 9 May 1864 a medical board in Lauderdale, MS recommend he report to the surgeon there, with no later military record.

After the War

In 1870 and to at least 1880 he was farming in Lavaca County, TX. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Hays County.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as as Jacob Clauson Quick, and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ann Washington (1836-1926) in May 1855 and they had 11 children.

Birth

03/19/1833; York County, SC

Death

12/15/1912; Henley, TX; burial in Middlebrooks Cemetery, Hays County, TX

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 157 - 158  [AotW citation 1812]