Campaigns and Battles - Q

Q:  Quallatown, North Carolina, to Quitman, Arkansas

Source: The Union Army, Vol. IV. Madison, Wisconsin: Federal Publishing Company, 1908.


Quallatown, North Carolina, January 31-February 7, 1864. Troops of the Department of the Ohio. Major-General John G. Foster, commanding the Department of the Ohio, reported to General Grant from Maryville, Tennessee, on February 7: "An expedition against Colonel Thomas and his band of Indians and whites at Quallatown has returned completely successful. They surprised the town, killed and wounded 215, took 50 prisoners, and dispersed the remainder of the gang in the mountains. Our loss, 2 killed and 6 wounded."


Quarles' Mill, Virginia, May 23, 1864. (See North Anna River.)


Queen City, U. S. S., Capture of, June 24, 1864. (See Clarendon, same date.)


Queen of the West, Attack on, September 19, 1862. (See Bolivar.) Queen's Hill, Mississippi, February 4, 1864. Meridian Expedition. Confederate reports of the Meridian expedition made mention of an affair on Queen's hill on the 4th as the Federals were moving on Clinton. The result was a victory for the Union command, the enemy being compelled to give way before the vigorous and determined advance of the Federals. The casualties were not reported.


Quincy, Missouri, September 4, 1863. Details from 18th Iowa Infantry and 8th Missouri Militia Cavalry. A band of guerrillas under Rafter dashed into Quincy on the 4th, shot and killed a citizen, and captured 4 men of the 18th la., after one of the latter had shot and killed Rafter. The guerrillas were about to fire the town when a detachment of the 8th Missouri militia cavalry attacked and drove them out. One of the militiamen was mortally wounded. The lifeless bodies of the 4 la. men were found next morning.


Quincy, Missouri, November 1-2, 1864. Detachment of 8th Missouri State Militia Cavalry. Captain Jacob Cassairt, with 30 men of Company I, 8th Missouri militia cavalry and some citizens, came up with 100 Confederates about 10 miles from Quincy. A charge was ordered and the enemy broke and fled. The pursuit resulted in 6 of the enemy being killed and 3 wounded. The following day Cassairt attacked another party of the enemy, cutting off 100 men in the rear and driving them into the brush. Some' 25 of the enemy were killed or wounded. The Federals sustained no loss in either engagement.


Quinn's Mills, Mississippi, June 16, 1863. 1st Cavalry Brigade, Left Wing, 16th Army Corps. At the beginning of the operations of the left wing of Hurlbut's corps in northwestern Mississippi, the 1st cavalry brigade found the bridge across the Coldwater river at Quinn's mills destroyed and the advance encountered a Confederate picket of 20 men. While the men were making preparations to cross a volley was fired at them Page 722 from a few outbuildings within a few feet of the bank, wounding 3 of the Federal force.


Quinn & Jackson's Mill, Mississippi, October 9, 1863. Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps. Major-General S. A. Hurlbut, commanding the corps, reported from Memphis, Tennessee, on the 12th, as follows: "On Friday last the enemy's cavalry under Lee moved in three columns. Two which crossed the Coldwater, one at Lumpkin's mill, one at Quinn & Jackson's, were met and repulsed; they fell back and joined the main body." The affair was an incident of the Chalmers raid in north Mississippi and west Tennessee.


Quinn & Jackson's Mill, Mississippi, November 3, 1863. (See Collierville, same date.)


Quicksand Creek, Kentucky, April 5, 1864. U. S. Troops, District of Eastern Kentucky. The itinerary of this district from March 28-April 14 states that at 11 p. m. on the 5th a portion of the Federal troops surprised the camp of 85 Confederates on the Quicksand river in Breathitt county. The enemy had 8 killed and wounded, and 3 men and 24 horses captured.


Quitman, Arkansas, September 2, 1864. Detachment 3d Arkansas Cavalry. Colonel Abraham H. Ryan, reporting from Lewisburg, on September 7, says: "On the 2nd instant Captain Napier and Lieut. Carr had a skirmish with Colonel Witt, 8 miles from Quitman, killed 7, and captured Captain Livingston and 4 men of Witt's command."