For those of you with an interest in the Civil War and/or Ohio: the
following (below the dashed line) is from one of the cemetery/genealogy
lists I'm on.

I haven't checked this out, but contact information and web addresses are
provided at the bottom.

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, [log in to unmask]
The Political Graveyard, http://politicalgraveyard.com


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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:
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[log in to unmask] (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!