| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Organized the 42d Tennessee Infantry at the outbreak of war and was elected as its colonel. Promoted to brigadier general in September 1863. Major campaigns and battles include Fort Donelson (captured and exchanged), Jackson, the Atlanta campaign, and Franklin (wounded and captured). After the war, Quarles returned to Tennessee. He died in Kentucky in September 1893 and is buried there. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 5. National Historical Society, 1991.
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