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PRESS RELEASE ISSUED MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 31, 1999
A Press Release was issued on Memorial Day , May 31, 1999 explaining what the 107th OVI reenactment group was planning and what the Regiment hoped to achieve.
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MONUMENT EFFORT UPDATE-Nov. 2000
The Effort began slowly, not knowing what would be required or expected. The 107th's members voted in February, 1999 at the Olustee, Fl. reenacment to undertake the effort to place a marker or monument at Cemetery hill in 2003 to coincide with the 140th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the 140th Anniversary Reenactment. Lt. Wayne Watts, Commanding Officer and Randall K. Garvin, former CO have worked on establishing the Monument diligently.
We received our first setback when we learned that Gettysburg National Military Park and the Department of the Interior have a Moratorium in place on new monuments at the Park. Rather than seek to lift the Moratorium, we have decided to seek an exception to , given the nature of the issue, that being the 107th's actions having been overlooked for 140 years.
Lt. Watts has located a stone cutter who can engrave the monument for us, should we be successful in the Effort. Mr. Garvin contacted the Honorable Charles E. Bennett and inquired as to whether he could assist. The Honorable Mr. Bennett could render no assistance, but suggested we contact the senator who has Gettysburg in his district. That Senator is the Honorable Rick Santorum, R.-Pa.
Mr. Garvin has also been working with local NPS rangers to establish a new Living History Program at Fort Caroline NP in Jacksonville, which maintains St. John's Bluff, the site of 3 major Federal Naval engagements between US Navy vessels and Confederate batteries located on the Bluff during 1862.
We have been patiently waiting for the 2000 elections to conclude before we take further steps. We will mount a letter writing campaign to show citizen's interest in the Effort soon.
We are still NOT accepting funding for the Effort until we can get the exception approved.
FURTHUR UPDATES WILL BE POSTED ON THIS PAGE IN THE NEAR FUTURE!
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UPDATE
March 2001
We have been waiting for the 2000 National Elections to shake out to see who we have as Department of the Interior Secretary and National Park Service Superintendent.
As soon as we see who is appointed to these posts, we plan to launch a letter writing campaign to support our cause.
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UPDATE
SUMMER 2001
I recently wrote Dr. Latschar, Superintendent of Gettysburg NMP in an effort to obtain information on criteria for establishing new Monuments at Getysburg. Basically, I was told that no new Monuments could be established at the Park. I was at Gettysburg in 1998 for the reenactment when they established the Longstreet Monument. Apparently, they have decided that this is to be the last Monument established up there.
We have decided to launch a letter writing campaign to our Federal Congresspeople in the State of Florida. At the same time , the descendants of the 107th's men have initiated the letter writing campaign. We living historians of the 107th Ohio now need to write our Federal Congrees people from the State of Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio. We can write the State Legislature of Ohio as well as the 140th Anniversary Battle of Gettysburg in 2003 will coincide with their Bicentennial.
We will be spreading word to our comrades in arms both down here in the South as well as up North. We hope to galvanize the Living Historian community to assist us in righting this wrong that has been overlooked for 138 years.
We will be publishing names and addresses of people to write in the very near future right here.
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