George G. Dunbar

About age 30, a planter from Weston in Wilkinson County, MS, he mustered on 27 May 1861 as a Private in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Infantry in Corinth, MS.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left arm and captured in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He lost his arm to amputation, paroled on 30 September, and was in hospitals in Shepherdstown and Winchester, VA, where he was captured (again?) on 5 December 1862. He was sent to the Atheneum military prison at Wheeling, VA in February 1863 then on to Camp Chase, OH about 4 March. He was transferred to City Point, VA for exchange on 28 March 1863. He was in a Petersburg, VA hospital by 2 April then furloughed home for 90 days; he was still on furlough in December 1864, the latest military record.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound is on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

c. 1831