Wayland Fuller Dunaway

Born in 1841 and dying in 1916, Wayland Fuller Dunaway is best remembered for Reminiscences of a Rebel, a memoir drawn from his own experience in the Civil War. The surviving records available here identify him as the Rev. Wayland Fuller Dunaway, showing the central place of ministry in his life.

His memoir has kept his name in circulation because it offers a personal view of the Confederate side of the war rather than a distant retelling. That firsthand perspective makes him notable not just as a minister, but as a witness who wrote from lived experience.

Dunaway also belonged to a family with a continuing literary and scholarly presence: later books in library catalogs appear under the same name for a younger Wayland Fuller Dunaway, suggesting a legacy carried into the next generation. For readers interested in Civil War memory, clergy in wartime, or reflective personal history, his work remains the main doorway into his life.