The battle to save the Wilderness battlefield in Locust Grove, Virginia, has gone Hollywood.
Academy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall stepped in and said he would help preservationists fight the possible construction of a Wal-Mart on the land.
The battlefield was the place where Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee first fought the Union’s Ulysses S. Grant.
The Associated Press reports that at a press conference on Monday, Duvall said he wasn’t against Wal-Mart, but that he believed in capitalism with sensitivity. Duvall has also been active in protesting the proposed PATH transmission line through Northern Virginia.
With Duvall, who is a descendant of Lee, Congressmen Peter Welch of Vermont and Ted Poe of Texas also protested the construction of the big retailer.
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