Delta Epsilon (ΔΕ) was an American regional college fraternity for men.
Delta Epsilon was established in 1862 at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.
[1] The founders intended to expand the fraternity to all Virginia colleges.
[1] The first edition of Baird's Manual suggests that all three chapters "were weak", ostensibly due to their formation in the tumultuous days leading up to the Civil War.
[5][4] Baird's Manual 2nd edition describes the Zeta chapter of Beta Theta Pi as having been "killed by the War" but notes that it was revived with the adoption of Delta Epsilon's sole remaining chapter in 1869.