George Dunn was an 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]

• 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.

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