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Citing sources : Could use additional citations. Baird's manual citations are done, but a notable publication or book, or one or more university yearbooks or historical citations are needed.
Update : We need to decipher the names of the second and third chapter. Were they Beta and Gamma? We need to determine the school for the second chapter. To aid other researchers, as a reference I narrowed the list to eight possible schools, at least in Virginia. Could it also have been in West Virginia?
Wikify : Can anyone find a crest? Color swatches? Other symbolism? Add relevant details to the infobox. The chapter list should be placed into a table format, like this: Sigma Delta Rho (to reference an unrelated example). (DONE) Chapter list should include references that point to eventual outcome, by group, any notable members and other interesting facts. Obviously the bulk of these would be from the Hampden-Sidney chapter. Did the members of the other two chapters die out during the war? Any Civil War references?
Notes and references on the page indicate possible schools that could have been the site of Delta Epsilon's Beta chapter. Re-reading the page, it struck me that there is a slim possibility that a West Virginia school could have been the short-term host of a chapter, as that state's counties began to pull away from Virginia in 1861, and only formally joined the Union as a new state (West Virginia) in 1863. Jax MN (talk) 16:32, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It is also possible, but less likely, that the chapter formed at Bethany College in West Virginia, a state that seceded from Virginia in 1861 and joined into the Union (North) as a separate state in June 1863. As to other schools, West Virginia University was re-opened, under that name, after the Civil War. However, allowing for a sixth possible site, there was about a 1-yr period between September 1867 and the (~1868) dormancy of Delta Epsilon where a chapter may have been placed there under its former name of the Agricultural College of West Virginia, but it seems unlikely to us in light of the pending split between the states. Here is what one of our participants said, regarding why other WV schools don't fit: "There were three other schools in operation in what became WV at that time: Marshall University, West Liberty University, and Bethany.
Marshall was still an academy/high school in the early 1860s; although its name had changed to Marshall College before the war. My guess is that the pending war slowed down any plans to convert the school to a college. According to the Almanac, it did not have GLOs until the 20th century.
West Liberty was still an academy in the 1860s.
This leaves Bethany as the [best, maybe only, WV] option. It had fraternities at the time and operated on and off throughout the war.
Since the counties that now form WV withdrew from the state of Virginia before the formation of Delta Epsilon, politics makes it improbable that a chapter formed there."
But we leave this open to further research, along with my suggestion of a slim opportunity that the chapter was formed at the Agricultural school that became WVU. Jax MN (talk) 21:19, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
