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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 03 > Modern battle brews over building a Wal-Mart at Civil War battlefield

Modern battle brews over building a Wal-Mart at Civil War battlefield

Historians, including Ken Burns, take issue with proposed Supercenter

By Steve Szkotak / The Bulletin
January 3, 2009

LOCUST GROVE, Va. — Wal-Mart wants to build a Supercenter within a cannonshot of where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first fought, a proposal that has preservationists rallying to protect the key Civil War site.

A who’s who of historians including filmmaker Ken Burns and....

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