Dunbar's Guerrillas was an independent company of Confederate cavalrymen during the American Civil War. They were raised by Captain William Dunbar, who was from Russell County, Kentucky and lived on the Cumberland River. Dunbar raised men from family and friends in southeastern Kentucky. They rode into Tennessee to fight for the South. Dunbar himself was regularly commissioned in Nashville, as well as his nephew, Lieutenant Silas Dunbar. They joined Nathan Bedford Forrest and served under Colonel Lawton who commanded a battalion of likewise independent companies.