Winton Ovington Dunn

Winton Ovington Dunn (1835-1900). Winton enlisted in the Confederate Army on February 18, 1862 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama in Fowler's (Phelan's) Battery, Alabama Light Artillery. At the end of the war he was surrendered to Union forces at Citronelle, Alabama on May 4, 1865 and paroled at Meridian, Mississippi on May 10, 1865. William was the son of Winton William Dunn and Mary Catherine Davis and grandson of Margaret Winton.

Fowler's (Phelan's) Artillery Battery was organized on 28 December 1861, at Davis Ford, VA. It was composed chiefly of men who had served a year in Virginia as Co. "H", Fifth Alabama Infantry, having volunteered with R. E. Rodes as captain. The company was the first organization that re-enlisted "for the war." The battery was on duty at Mobile for about a year. Having joined the main army, at Tullahoma, the battery was part of General Edward C. Walt Hall's Brigade at Chickamauga, and there lost 10 killed, 18 wounded, and 16 horses. At Missionary Ridge, the battery had several wounded. Placed in General Benjamin F. Cheatham's Division, the battery lost 6 killed and 9 wounded. On the retreat from Dalton, the guns were served almost daily. Moving with General John Bell Hood into Tennessee. The battery was engaged in the Battle of Nashville on December 15-16, 1864, losing 3 killed and wounded. The two-day Franklin-Nashville battle largely destroyed General Hood’s Confederate Army and was the last large scale fight in the western theater of the civil war. The battery was thereafter stationed at Mobile until the close of the war, and surrendered with 130 men.