A court hearing scheduled for Thursday on a plan to build a Wal-Mart store near a Civil War battlefield in Virginia has been delayed, the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star reports.
The hearing was related to a lawsuit brought by a preservationist group and six local residents against the Orange County Board of Supervisors after the board approved a special-use permit to allow Wal-Mart to build a store near the Wilderness Battlefield, where Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee first met on the field of battle.
The hearing was postponed at the request of one of the attorneys involved in the case who had a death in the family.
Civil War preservationists have pushed for the store to be built elsewhere, but the store maintains that it will be sufficiently away from the center of the site.
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