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Severely wounded at the Battle of Mine Creek, Private James Dunlavy attempted to join what he assumed was his own brigade when he noted a Confederate officer encouraging the men to make a stand. Quickly he realized that the soldiers of the brigade were enemy soldiers, dressed in the uniforms of the Union Army. Private Dunlavy shot at the enemy officer, missing because his wounds made it difficult to render accurate fire. Still, Private Dunlavy demanded the surrender of the officer, General Marmaduke (C.S.A.). Upon accepting the enemy officer's revolver, the wounded Dunlavy escorted his prisoner to the Union lines where he turned the captured general over to General Samuel Ryan Curtis. After his Civil War service, in 1870 Mr. Dunlavy enrolled in Keokuk Medical College. After graduation he spent 32 years practicing medicine at Stiles in Davis County, Iowa |
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