Watson Soule Dibrell, brother of Anthony Dibrell, was a student at the college during the early years of the war when the college instituted a military training regimen similar to that of Virginia Military Institute. He enlisted as a private on August 19, 1862 in the Virginia 1st Co. Howitzers Light Artillery Battery, the Richmond Howitzers. He surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
He was a mercantile agent in Norfolk, VA in the 1870 census, and his occupation in the 1880 census is listed as "transportation" while the 1900 census lists him as a railroad clerk, also in Norfolk, where the 1888 city directory lists his employer as the Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia Air Line.
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