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Wager Swayne
Wager Swayne
U.S. Army general
Wager T. Swayne
led the
Freedmen's Bureau
in Alabama during the
Reconstruction Era
after the
Civil War
. He oversaw the establishment of secondary schools for African Americans in
Selma
,
Montgomery
, and
Mobile
, as well as the creation of
Talladega College
.
Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History