LOCUST GROVE -- Preservationists battling a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter near a Virginia Civil War battlefield are bringing in some star power.
Academy Award winner Robert Duvall will take center stage this morning at a news conference to commemorate the 145th anniversary of the Battle of the Wilderness.
Wal-Mart has proposed a store near the Orange County battlefield, which has prompted an outcry among historians around the U.S. They fear the store will diminish a battlefield where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant had their first Civil War encounter.
Duvall portrayed the Confederate Lee in the 2003 film "Gods and Generals" and owns property in Virginia's horse country.
The Wal-Mart proposal must first be approved by Orange County supervisors.
-- The Associated Press
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