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Charleston Harbor to give up historic secrets

It is one of the largest and most important battlefields in the country, a place where the scattered relics of war have lain hidden for more than a century.

But soon, some of the secrets of Charleston Harbor might finally be revealed.

The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina has been awarded a grant from the National Park Service to map the wrecks hidden beneath the water, the sand and the silt.
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