Academy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall has fired a verbal salvo against plans to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter near a Virginia Civil War battlefield where Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee first fought the Union’s Ulysses S. Grant.

Academy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall has fired a verbal salvo against plans to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter near a Virginia Civil War battlefield where Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee first fought the Union’s Ulysses S. Grant.

A step back in time…Despite the slumping economy, this weekend, the Battle of Aiken attendance was at a record high. WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has more.

Times are tough, now, but image if you were in Aiken in 1865, it was war. But, you can visit those Civil War times this weekend at 15th annual Battle of Aiken, where you can get a bang out of history…that’s out there somewhere, with WJBF News Channel 6’s George Eskola.