<Li> Franklin Howard Scobey (May 27, 1837--July 22, 1888) was born in Hamilton, Ohio . Scobey was considered The Spirit of Sigma Chi for being friendly with everybody and not just a select group of people . After graduating from Miami University in 1858 he went on to graduate again in 1861 with a law degree . He worked as a journalist in his hometown until 1879 but went on to become a cattleman in Kansas until 1882 . Scobey then moved back to Ohio where he took up farming until his death . Never physically robust, Scobey was afflicted with hearing loss in his final years . </Li> <Li> James Parks Caldwell (March 27, 1841--April 5, 1912) was born in Monroe, Ohio . By the age of thirteen Caldwell had completed all academics which could be offered at his local academy . He was then sent to Miami University with advanced credits . Caldwell was just fourteen at the time of the founding making him the youngest of the founders . After Caldwell graduated from Miami University in 1857 he practiced some law in Ohio but moved to Mississippi to begin a career as an educator . When the Civil War broke out he joined the Confederate Army . During the war he was taken prisoner but later, due to the influence of General Benjamin Piatt Runkle, was offered freedom on the condition that he renounce his allegiance to the Confederacy . He rejected this offer and remained loyal to the south . He was later released, again due to the influence of General Runkle . After the war he moved back to Mississippi and was admitted to the bar . He moved to California in 1867 and practiced law . In 1875, he began to travel frequently practicing law and editing newspapers . He died in Biloxi, Mississippi where the latest issues of The Sigma Chi Quarterly were found in his room . </Li> <P> Harry St. John Dixon, a brother from the Psi Chapter at the University of Virginia who fought for the Confederacy, kept a record of all Sigma Chis within his vicinity on the flyleaf of his diary during the American Civil War . He began planning a Confederate Army chapter of Sigma Chi with this information . On September 17, 1864 Dixon founded the Constantine Chapter of Sigma Chi during the Atlanta campaign with Harry Yerger, a brother from Mississippi who was in Dixon's division . Dixon stated the reasons for which the war - time chapter was created saying, </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> It was ascertained that a number of the fraternity were in the army of Tennessee under General Joseph E. Johnston during the Atlanta campaign in 1864 . It was conceded that the South was forever disunited from the general government, and it was assumed that all chapters throughout the South would cease to exist . Furthermore, it was deemed expedient that we brothers should know each other and our several commands for the purpose of relief in distress, and communication in a case of need, with our Northern brethren . In the ruin at hand my sentiment was to preserve the lofty principles typified by the White Cross . I know that I had no authority to establish a chapter of Sigma Chi outside a college, or at all; but, isolated as we were, I thought I should raise the standard and fix a rallying point . By doing so we should preserve the Order, whether we failed or not in our struggle for independence . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Who is credited with establishing the constantine chapter