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From: "Eric Peterson" <>
Subject: Re: [SUVCW] Lee's Last Battlefield
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:15:36 -0400
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This kind of development must not be allowed. They already have a mall at
the location where General Sedgewick was killed at Spotsylvania.

Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ernest Everett Blevins" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 10:50 PM
Subject: [SUVCW] Lee's Last Battlefield


> This came though SCV sources but is relevant to the SUVCW.
>
> ****
> Wal-Mart advances on Lee's last battlefield
> By Robert Lee Hodge
>
>
> America is in an internal war today; perhaps the biggest threat to
> the very existence of future generations of this blessed country is
> the struggle for the future of our lands.
>
> Will the pastures of the family farms and the mountains and valleys
> of hardwood forests succumb to the asphalt and concrete that
> overpopulation brings? Fairfax County is a prime example of how not
> to plan a community. I think the Northern Virginia sprawl creeping
> down the interstate is criminal.
>
> Mankind has always fought over land, and in a nonviolent way that is
> what we must do to save our history, if we value it.
>
> As I toured Appomattox last year, I saw that development in historic
> areas has increased more in the last five years than in the past 142
> years since the surrender. Wal-Mart announced this month that it will
> build on the ground that was fought over primarily by a Federal
> cavalry brigade under Gen. Henry Davies and Confederate troopers
> under Gen. Thomas Munford -- including the 2nd Virginia Cavalry in
> which Company H was the Appomattox Rangers.
>
> This is where Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fired its
> last shots and suffered its last casualties. The Confederate dead are
> buried on the ground slated for development. The Robertson house that
> once stood there was used as a Federal headquarters and probably a
> hospital. This is of interest to reverent people throughout the
> country.
>
> There are three and soon to be a fourth Wal-Mart in the Lynchburg
> area, and there is also one in nearby Farmville. Is it necessary that
> there be another in Appomattox?
>
> And if it must be built, why build it on the ground soaked with the
> life-blood of our ancestors? Is this what they gave their lives for?
> Surely Wal-Mart would do just as well on nonhistoric property a mile
> or two along U.S. 460 in either direction.
>
> If there is not enough interest or support to preserve the land in
> its entirety, the optimum choice, can't the people of Appomattox work
> with Wal-Mart to protect a portion of that hallowed ground?
>
> Whether you are a Southerner or a Northerner; Democrat or Republican;
> domestic or imported; black, white, yellow, red, blue or gray --
> these places tell us more about who we are than any other single
> historical period in our brief existence. It is our road map to tell
> us who we are, where we are, where we have been, and where we may go.
>
> What will you do, Appomattox? What will your legacy be?
>
> Hodge is co-founder of an Emmy award winning film company, Wide Awake
> Films.
>
> ****
> Ernie
> List Adminstrator
>
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