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From: "Julia A. Krutilla" <>
Subject: [WVBROOKE] Ohio's only Civil War Battlefield
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:13:09 -0500

Hello All,

The following is a forwarded message from the Ohio Valley Digest Email
group:

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
graves 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 soldiers 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:

(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_isl

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