Sorry, folks, I was trying not to clutter our mailboxes with a quote of mail we had just received. Perhaps some deleted it without reading it or just didn't get it for some reason. So much for my trying to save space. I was commenting on: >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! Diane