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Ben Stein to Wal-Mart: Hands Off Civil War Battlefield

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 7, 2009 3:29 PM CDT

(Newser) – Ben Stein loves Wal-Mart—just don’t put one smack-dab in the middle of a historic Civil War battlefield in Orange, Va. The 1864 Battle of the Wilderness was a turning point in the conflict, Stein writes in the American Spectator, and the “battlefield...   Read full story »

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United States • America • Virginia • development • Civil War • Ben Stein • Walmart • national park • Ulysses Grant • Battle of the Wilderness • Robert E. Lee

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