Edward Wild, the controversial Union general who headed the all-black African Brigade in the Civil War, was one of the most loved and most hated figures of the

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Captain George W. Alexander was a controversial figure in Richmond duringthe Civil War, honored as a hero and condemned as a cruel prison superintendent. He was