William McEntyre Dye was a graduate of West Point, a brevet colonel in the Union army, and a brevet brigadier general in the volunteer army. After the war, the Iowan served on the frontier, and was a witness to the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie with the Sioux. Assigned to the general staff at the Citadel, Dye was actually Stone’s first choice to become the American second-in-command for the Abyssinian campaign. However, Dye, had no confidence in Egyptian commander Ratib Pasha and refused the assignment, instead offering to serve under Loring or Stone himself. Loring took the post, and Dye served as his assistant chief of staff. During the disastrous battle of Gura, he received a wound in his foot. Following the campaign, Dye faced a court-martial for striking a popular Egyptian officer; however, Dye was one of only two or three Americans in the service of the Khedive who had refused to waive their right to appeal for U.S. protection, and the matter remained unresolved. Following his return from Egypt, Dye served as Washington, D.C.’s chief of police. He also wrote a book detailing his experiences in Egypt, Moslem Egypt and Christian Abyssinia (1880), which harshly attacked General Loring. (In fact, much of A Confederate Soldier in Egypt is a response to Dye’s book.) In 1888, on the recommendation of General Phillip Sheridan, Dye became the chief military advisor to the Korean Government, where he would spend the next 11 years. While there, he wrote a treatise on military tactics, in Korean. He returned to the United States in May of 1899, but died in November, having suffered severely from dysentery for many years. Dye is buried in Graceland Cemetary in Chicago.