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846 Wayne's brigade. Dr. Dunn was educated at Emory-Henry college, and was attending lectures at Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, when the war opened. He was a member of the Washington Mounted Rifles, organized in 1860, and was enlisted under Capt. William E. Jones, afterward general, in April, 1861. The company became Company D of the First Virginia cavalry, Col. J. E. B. Stuart. Joining Johnston's army, he served in all the skirmishes which covered the march to Manassas, and on reaching that battlefield he was ordered to report for duty on the medical staff. But riding up to the front to observe the fight, he was ordered by General Beauregard to report the condition at Blackburn's ford, and was then sent by General Johnston to observe the situation lower down Bull run. While on this duty he witnessed the attack of Gen. Kirby Smith upon the Federal flank. Then riding to the front with Stuart he carried dispatches to Johnston that night announcing the demoralization of McDowell's army. Afterward he advanced as a scout to within sight of the Federal capital, at Falls church, Munson's hill and Bailey's Cross roads. He held his post as a picket when his company was ambuscaded at Lunensville and was one of the boys in gray from which Fitz John Porter made a narrow escape at Flint Hill. W. E. Jones at this time became colonel of the regiment, and being determined to feel the enemy in his front, captured a body of their pickets. When Johnston withdrew from Manassas to the peninsula, the cavalry halted at the Rappahannock and the First cavalry recrossed and in a dash at the enemy captured a considerable number of the Eighth Illinois cavalry, after which they left Dunn and his comrade, Charles Delaney, to scout on the enemy's side, a duty which they performed so well as to win official mention by General Stuart. Meantime Dr. Dunn had also gained some fame in treatment of camp fever, and at the expiration of his year's enlistment he was transferred to the medical department and stationed at general hospital No. 4, to study surgery under Dr. J. B. Read. He graduated in April, 1863, and after declining several requests of infantry colonels for his service, yielded to the invitation of Colonel Mosby in July, and joined his battalion with the rank of assistant surgeon. A few days later he gave surgical attention to Mosby, who was wounded at Gooden's Tavern, and brought him safely back to the Confederate lines, though several Federal troops were hunting for him. Twice afterward he rendered medical service to the gallant partisan leader. But his professional duties did not prevent his participating in nearly all the fights of the Forty-third battalion. He was with Major Richards late in the fall of 1864 when nine of Mosby's men brought out twenty-seven Michigan cavalrymen, including Captain Helbner, and, as several of the captives were Masons, the doctor persuaded Major Richards to have them sent direct to Richmond and not to Mosby's headquarters, some prisoners having been sent out before Captain Helbner was captured. On September 3, 1864, he was with Mosby near Halltown, and he and Flynn were sent to capture a train of ambulances, which they left unmolested on account of the wounded men they carried. The same men, with a comrade, a mile below, created a stampede in a Federal command, captured a Federal bandwagon and band and started for the Shenandoah with it, but were pursued by a squadron of the enemy. Dr. Dunn and Flynn halted to fight