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Wayland Fuller Dunaway
1841–1916
A Civil War veteran and later Virginia clergyman, he is best remembered for a firsthand memoir that reflects on marching, battle, and memory from the Confederate side. His writing offers a personal, early-20th-century window into the war as he lived it.
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Reminiscences of a Rebel
by Wayland Fuller Dunaway
About the author
Born in Lancaster County, Virginia, in 1841, Wayland Fuller Dunaway served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and later became a minister. Sources about his family also identify him as the father of historian Wayland Fuller Dunaway Jr., linking him to a line of writers and public figures from Virginia.
He is known as the author of Reminiscences of a Rebel, published in 1913. The book presents his own account of wartime service and was issued under the name Rev. Wayland Fuller Dunaway, D.D., showing the blend of soldier, memoirist, and clergyman that shaped his public identity.
Because reliable biographical details about his life outside the memoir are fairly limited online, most modern references focus on those two roles: Civil War officer and later preacher. He died in 1916.