Dyer, Zebulon

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Class of 1859
    Full name
    Zebulon Dyer
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Estimated
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Military
    Educator
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Military
    Confederate Army

    Zebulon Dyer (Dickinson Chronicles)

    Scholarship
    Zebulon Dyer was born in 1837 in Upper Tract, Pendleton County, West Virginia. He was a member of the Union Philosophical Society and Phi Kappa Sigma; he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1859. Until the outbreak of the Civil War, he spent the next two years teaching and studying law.

    Dyer entered the Confederate States Army as a lieutenant in 1861; he was killed later that same year at Allegheny Mountain on December 13. He was twenty-four years old.
    John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “ Zebulon Dyer,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/d/ed_dyerZ.htm.
    How to Cite This Page: "Dyer, Zebulon," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/11994.