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Terence John Quinn of New York, 1865-1880. Quinn, Hon. Terence John of N.Y. (c 1877), between 1865 and 1880. Lt. Co. B. 25th Regt. N.Y.M. was credited with having captured the first prisoner taken during the [American Civil] war. [Politician, brewer and soldier: served as second lieutenant in Company B, Twenty-fifth Regiment, New York State Militia Volunteers of the Union Army].