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Comments on: More on Headless Billy https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103 Bringing obscurity into focus Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 By: Deb https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103&cpage=1#comment-38707 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:19:55 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103#comment-38707 $2500.00 seams rather an inexpensive price for a statue, at that price, I’d even consider purchasing one…..

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By: John Foskett https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103&cpage=1#comment-38656 Sat, 29 May 2010 16:48:52 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103#comment-38656 Eric: Late to the game but here’s a link to a May, 2008 article from the Toledo Blade regarding history of the park and its several statues. It appears that at the time the auction was to be of the entire property, including all of its statues.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080717/NEWS24/81477279

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By: Mike Peters https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103&cpage=1#comment-38655 Sat, 29 May 2010 15:42:08 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103#comment-38655 The gentlemen named on the side of the monument grew up near “Headless Billy’s” original home, Muskingum County’s Baughman Park.

G. H. Playford enlisted 17 April 1861 in Company A of the 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Most of the Company’s recruits hailed from Zanesville, also in Muskingum County.

B. M. O’Boylan was a member of the clergy, a priest at St. Francis DeSales Church in Newark, Ohio. Newark is in Licking County, which adjoins Muskingum.

There were many Ohioans with the name “David Davis” who served during the War. My best guess is that the third guy on the statue was from Licking County and fought with Company D of the 76th OVI. After the war, Davis resided in Conesville, OH, a town in Coshocton County on the Musjingum River.

Mike Peters

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By: Mike Peters https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103&cpage=1#comment-38653 Sat, 29 May 2010 14:45:32 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103#comment-38653 I guess the thing that baffles me is why would someone purchase a headless statue? I’m hoping the buyer bought with plans of refurbishing Sherman to his original condition.

And why would he/she chose such an obscure location? And if the buyer paid to move it once, will he/she be open to the idea of moving it again?

Looking forward to your next posting Eric.

Mike Peters

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By: David Woodbury https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103&cpage=1#comment-38649 Sat, 29 May 2010 02:52:43 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103#comment-38649 I didn’t read comment number 7 until after I’d posted comment number 8. I hope you’ll still go into some detail in a full blog post. Looks like a pretty interesting story.

David

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By: David Woodbury https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103&cpage=1#comment-38642 Fri, 28 May 2010 20:16:00 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103#comment-38642 Ooops. Sorry — I couldn’t help myself. I love a good mystery.

David

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By: David Woodbury https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103&cpage=1#comment-38641 Fri, 28 May 2010 20:15:24 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103#comment-38641 Eric,

A follow up — Geoff Elliott on the Abraham Lincoln Blog reported that some or all of the Baughman Park statues were auctioned off. http://abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/buy-your-own-statue-of-lincoln.html

There’s part of the puzzle. The vandalized Sherman statue from Baughman was sold and moved. The winning bid for the Sherman statue was $2.600. http://tinyurl.com/32k5gvb

There are lots of articles on line about the statues in that park before they were sold off. Sounds like it was a pretty amazing place with all those monuments out in the woods. I haven’t found anything yet about who purchased the Sherman one.

David

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By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103&cpage=1#comment-38640 Fri, 28 May 2010 20:10:35 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103#comment-38640 David,

Yep, and you stole my thunder. Mike Peters figured this out last night, and I intend to post about it over the weekend.

Eric

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By: David Woodbury https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103&cpage=1#comment-38638 Fri, 28 May 2010 20:03:57 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103#comment-38638 Eric,

This photo of the Sherman statue “at Baughman Park, near State Route 586,
just North of State Route 16 in Muskingum County, Ohio,” appears to be the same one (or same design) as your Pinkerington statue.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~billjohns/historic/baughmanpark/shermanbaughmanpark.jpg

The Ohio Geology newsletter reports that in 1968, the Sherman and Roosevelt statues at Baughman Park were vandalized, and that Sherman’s head and hand were never recovered.
ohiodnr.com/Portals/10/pdf/newsletter/2002No.3,4.pdf

Seems like too much of a coincidence. Could the Baughman Park statue have been moved to Pinkerington?

David

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By: J David Petruzzi https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103&cpage=1#comment-38637 Fri, 28 May 2010 15:21:44 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=2103#comment-38637 Amazing stuff. Have you contacted the Sherman Museum to see if they know anything about it? They might even wish to take it, and possibly help fix it. Then again, they might not even know of its existence either…

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