Alexander B. Dyer (1815–1874)

[Alexander Brydie].  American general, born in Richmond, VA, on the 10th of January 1815. He was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837; was chief of ordnance of the army invading New Mexico in 1846–48, and afterward was in command of the North Carolina arsenal. From 1861 to 1864 he was in command of the Springfield armory, and in the latter year was placed in charge of the Ordnance Bureau in Washington, DC, with the rank of brigadier-general. In March 1865, he was brevetted major-general, United States army, for distinguished services. He was the inventor of the Dyer projectile for cannon. He died in Washington, DC, on the 20th of May 1874.