George Dunn (publisher)

George Dunn was an influential American music publisher and lithographer. He entered the music publishing business in 1863, during the American Civil War and rapidly rode to prominence.^[1] His firm was George Dunn & Company, and during the War Dunn published thirty-two works on his own and twenty-four with partner Julian A. Selby.

Some of the company's more popular works include "The Southern Soldier Boy", "God, Save the Southern Land", "Ardent Recruit" and "A Gallant Boy".^[2]

References

• Abel, E. Lawrence (2000). Singing the New Nation: How Music Shaped the Confederacy, 1861-1865. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books. ISBN 0-8117-0228-6.
• Cornelius, Steven (2004). Music of the Civil War Era. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-32081-0.
• Harwell, Richard Barksdale (1989). The Confederate Reader: How the South Saw the War. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-25980-3.
• Foner, Eric; Olivia Mahoney (1991). A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-30612-7.

Notes

1. Abel, pgs. 269-271
2. Harwell, pg. xx

External links

• An amateur singer/musician performing "The Southern Soldier Boy"