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May 18, 2006
Rapacious Developers Swallow Up Civil War Battlefields
By Russ Wellen
Communities are compromising their "greenspace" standards, writes newpaper columnist and Civil War historian William Marvel. Result? Battlefields are swallowed up and the land brave soldiers fought to free is being sold out from under their ghosts.
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Communities are compromising their "greenspace" standards, writes newpaper columnist and Civil War historian William Marvel. Result? Battlefields are swallowed up and the land brave soldiers fought to free is being sold out from under their ghosts.Russ Wellen is the nuclear deproliferation editor for OpEdNews. He's also on the staffs of Freezerbox and Scholars & Rogues.
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