George Washington Dunagan, a Civil War Legend

George Washington Dunagan was born in Hall County, Gainesville, Georgia in 1833, to Ezekiel Dunagan (1771-1836) and 2nd. wife, Margaret "Peggy" Wallace (1795-1868). He had five brothers and sisters and 13 half brothers and sisters from his father's first marriage to Lydia Ann Brown.

Lydia Ann Brown’s children (1775 – 1822)

Joseph Ellis Dunagan (1793 – 1861)

Benjamin Black Dunagan (1795 – 1884)

Susannah Dunagan (1797 – 1857)

John D Dunagan (1799 – 1857)

Abner Dunagan (1802 – 1850)

Anna Dunagan (1804 – 1857)

Delilah Dunagan (1806 – 1888)

Isaiah Dunagan (1808 – 1880)

Ezekiel Jackson Dunagan Jr., (1811 – 1881)

Andrew Foster Dunagan (1813 – )

Elizabeth Caroline Dunagan (1816 – 1907)

Louisa B Dunagan (1819 – 1893)

James Reid Dunagan (1821-1900)

Margaret "Peggy" Wallace’s children (1795 – 1868)

Sophie Elizabeth Dunagan (1826 – 1886)

Stephen Reid Dunagan (1827 – 1894)

Daniel C Dunagan (1829 – 1880)

Levi Jefferson Dunagan (1831 – 1906)

George Washington DUNAGAN (1833 – 1871)

Mary Jane Dunagan (1835 – 1916)

George Washington Dunagan had enlisted as a private in Whitfield’s Legion Cavalry, CSA, and fought in as many as 160 different battle engagements during the Civil War or as southerners like to call it the war of northern aggression. After the war ended, GW made his home in Hood County, Texas. He must have been one tough, tenacious, rugged individual. Everyone around Hood County, Texas called him "General" because he had fought in so many battles, I guess. He survived over 80 battle engagements just during the battle for Atlanta.

He became a school teacher and married Martha Elizabeth Wood of Hood County, Texas. They had one daughter. Unfortunately, in 1871, George Washington Dunagan died of pneumonia at age 38 after becoming sick with fever during a hunting trip. He died the same year his only child, George Washington "Georgie" DUNAGAN, a girl, was born. His wife Martha never remarried.

Martha Elizabeth Wood Dunagan died in 1923 at age 92. George Washington "Georgie" Dunagan married Eugene Sebastian Morris in 1897. They had the following children:

Davis Forrest MORRIS
Thomas Bunyan MORRIS
Joseph Weldon MORRIS
A baby son who died at birth, unnamed
Lorenzo Eugene MORRIS
Mary Modine MORRIS who married Joe E. McInroe
George G. Morris who died in childhood

I am thankful for the Hood County Texas Genealogical Society and Michael R. Dunagan, who is the source for most of what we now know about George Washington Dunagan. GW is buried in Dunagan Cemetery, also known as the Jackson Cemetery and is on private property on Loftin Road about 1/2 mile from the Rock Church in Hood County, Texas. Michael actually located the original grave site and had another headstone made to mark GW's grave. (photo below)