John Van Der Ipe Quick

In 1860 he was a sawyer and lived with his widowed mother in the household of saw mill owner Hannibal Osborn in Covert, Seneca County, NY. He enlisted there on 6 August 1862 and mustered on 22 August as a Private in Company G, 126th New York Infantry.

He was captured, along with the rest of his regiment, at Harpers Ferry on 15 September 1862 and paroled there the next day.

He was in the parole camp, Camp Douglas, at Chicago, IL to 22 November 1862, then he and the regiment were exchanged and returned to the army. He was promoted to Corporal on 27 February 1864 and was wounded and captured at Reams Station, VA on 25 August 1864. He was held in the prison camp at Salisbury, NC, and paroled for exchange, dates not found. He died of disease at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, PA on 4 April 1865.

His service from the Adjutant General,1 who says he died in an enemy prison camp. Details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Dave Lay for the pointer to Quick, and for posting a fine bio sketch of him on Facebook.

See much more about Quick and a c. 1850 photograph of him, from Ann Longmore-Etheridge on her blog Your Dying Charlotte.

08/27/1829; Lodi, NY

04/04/1865; Harrisburg, PA; burial in Lake View Cemetery, Interlaken, NY