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Col. Joshua John Ward was a very wealthy slave owner in the south before, and during the civil war. Nearing the end of the war, he stashed a magical lamp, that had granted him wishes of wealth and fortune, not knowing what would happen to it when the war ended. After the war had ended, he was in the top ranks of the KKK, and he spread rumors that through this lamp, the South could rise to power again, but the land was seized from him by the government at the end of the war.