Charles Edward Quail (October 9, 1841 – December 21, 1910) was an American politician and physician from Pennsylvania.

He also saw action at Hatcher's Run, the Siege of Petersburg and Appomattox Court House.

[1] He was engaged in the drug business and in 1873, he was elected deputy coroner of Schuylkill County.

He was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as federal Civil War pension examiner of Schuylkill County and served in that role from 1889 to 1901.

[4] He was chair of the county Republican committee and member of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Commission.

[1][2][3] In 1910, Quail traveled to Harrisburg to confer with Governor Edwin Sydney Stuart about reimbursing the railroads for providing transportation (for the old soldiers) to the dedication of the Gettysburg State Memorial.