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And no one had ever heard it.
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It showed the power of the lost cause
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in the wake of the war to erase a story.
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But I started looking for other sources,
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and lo and behold there were lots of sources.
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Harper's weekly even had a drawing of the cemetery
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in an 1867 issue.
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The old oval of that racetrack is still there today.
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If you ever go to Charleston go up to Hampton park.
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Hampton park is today what the racecourse was then.
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It's named for Wade Hampton,
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the white supremacist, redeemer, and governor