Dyer, Zebulon

Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
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/node/11994.