Preservationists Clash with Wal-Mart Over Civil War Site

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Preservationists Clash with Wal-Mart Over Civil War Site

4 May 2009 91 views No Comment

LOCUST GROVE, Va. – Actor Robert Duvall, who is a descendant of Robert E. Lee and portrayed the Confederate general in the movie “Gods and Generals,” has some credentials when it comes to the Civil War.

Duvall, 78, drew upon those connections Monday to make the case against a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter within a mile of the Wilderness Battlefield – where Lee and his Union counterpart, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, first fought in a battle l45 years ago Tuesday that historians said hastened the South’s fall.

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