Dunbar, George E.

George E. Dunbar (c.1833-1902), a farm laborer from Newburgh, Ohio, enlisted in Company B, Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, at Camp Wade in Cleveland, Ohio, in August 1861. Trained at Camp Dennison, Ohio, his company left for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in January 1862, Dunbar having been appointed sergeant and then quarter-master sergeant. While the regiment was defending the Kansas and Missouri borders during the Civil War, Dunbar became so sick with "rheumatism" that he was discharged on October 2, 1862. After a lengthy and painful journey by wagon and train, he returned to his wife, Lizzie, and two small sons in Newburgh.

From the guide to the George E. Dunbar Diary, 1862-1864, (Western Reserve Historical Society)