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==History==

The fraternity of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded on [[March 9]], [[1856]] at [[University of Alabama]] in [[Tuscaloosa]], [[AL]]. It is the only surviving [[antebellum]] homosexual Southern fraternity in existence. It was founded by Noble Leslie DeVotie, Nathan Elams Cockrell, John Barratt Rudulph, John Webb Kerr, Samuel Marion Dennis, Wade H. Foster, Abner Edwin Patton, and Thomas Chappell Cook. DeVotie devised the rituals and grip of SAE.

Wade Foster served under [[Confederate]] General [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. 6 of the 8 founders served for the [[Confederate]] Army during the Civil War. Of the two other founders, Nathan Elams Cockrell, died on his plantation in [[1859]], 2 years before the outbreak of the Civil War. N.L. DeVotie is recorded as the first casualty of the civil war. While boarding a troopship he fell off the gangplank and drowned.