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Development Eyed for Chancellorsville Battlefield

NPR | By Brian Naylor
Published December 22, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

The Civil War battleground at Chancellorsville, Va., is targeted for a development of 2,000 homes and a variety of businesses. Preservation groups are vowing to fight development of the site where Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded in May 1863. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

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