=== Terry Wilson 40 S. Gamble Street Shelby, OH 44875 Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, HARLAN/HARLAND,HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON ---"\"History Hunter\"" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>Friends and Compatriots! > >> > >>Your help is needed once again in our fight to save Buffington Island > >>Battlefield and the graves of Morgan's Raiders and other casualties who > >died > >>on this hollowed ground on July 19, 1863. > >> > >>The situation is very critical as mining could begin any day, > >>removing gravel and soil at the rate of 10,000 cubic yards per week, > >perhaps > >>containing, God forbid, the remains of Confederate and Union soldiers!! > >> > >>Some may argue the validity of preserving battlefields but has it come to > >>the point that pleas have to be made to preserve cemeteries and burial > >>sites? > >>We have a moral obligation to prevent the bones of America�s dead and the > >>sacred ground in which they are buried from being mined and shipped down > >the > >>Ohio River to become yet another parking lot or part of a highway. > >> > >>A petition will be send to Bob Taft, Governor of Ohio, urging him to > >>intervene in this matter. > >> > >>Please follow this link : > >>http://www.e-thepeople.com/petition.cfm?PETID=234417 > >> > >>Your signature is needed! > >> > >>It is dead wrong for our nation's heritage and history to be ignored and > >>sold out to the highest bidder. > >>It is a travesty to deny the same respect to the brave soldiers who died > at > >>Buffington Island that we accord to all other > >>Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice and fell in battle. > >> > >>Please share this message with as many people as possible! > >>Thank you!! > >> > >>For our heritage! > >>Marlitta H. Perkins > >>Spokesperson, Morgan's Men Association > >>and Eastern Kentucky Brigade, SCV > >>Officer, Buffington Island Battlefield Group, Inc. > >> > >>"Our Honored Dead at Buffington" website: > >>http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/7196/raiders.html > >> > >>E-mail: > >>[email protected] > > > Forwarded to you by Scott Williams, webmaster of the > Morgan's Men Association: > http://members.tripod.com/~Morgans_Men/index.html > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com