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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 82

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  #1 Save the battlefield!!               [JHuecker@aol.com]

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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:24:10 EST
From: JHuecker@aol.com
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Subject: Save the battlefield!!
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Saw this in the Sidney Ohio newspaper and thought it worth mentioning. Sorry 
it is so long but please read it in its entirety:

Ohio's only Civil War battlefield (and only one of three on Northern soil) is 
about to be destroyed at the hands of a sand and gravel company.  Buffington 
Island Battlefield is largely owned by the Shelley Materials of Thornville, 
Ohio, and company has filed and received permits to operate a gravel pit on 
the battlefield because Ohio has no historic preservation laws. The battle 
saved the North from further invasions when 8000 Union soldiers stopped 2200 
Confederate raiders after doing huge damage across Ohio.  It is the only 
battlefield where two future presidents - Hayes & McKinley -- participated. 
Between 54 and 105 US soldiers are buried in an unmarked, unlocated grave on 
the battlefield. Despite the fact that technology exists to locate these 
veterans, neither the gravel company nor the state of Ohio will do so.
    Currently, Ohio law does not recognize human remains after 125 years of 
burial, so these soliders do not count in the eyes of the state.
If more info is needed contact John Rawdon, 3471 Ellen Drive, Akron, Ohio or 
Margaret Parker, president, Meigs County Pioneer & Historical Society, PO Box 
145, Pomeroy, Ohio 45769.

Email addresses: 
meigscountyhistoricalsociety@dragonbbs.com
kdashley2@hotmail.com (Keith Ashley)

Please visit the petition to save the battlefield at 
http://www.petitiononline.com/Buff/petition.html.

Also visit the Saving Buffington island Web Site at 
http://www.geocities.com/buffington_isle/.

Thanks!

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