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Service Learning Project

Medal of Honor MemorialOld Town, Maine

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MissionA request from Mr. Matt Dunlap, the Maine Secretary of State to create memorials to remember and honor the Medal of Honor winners from the State of Maine. Requested that the memorials be created in the birthplaces of the Medal of Honor winners from all conflicts.

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The Process

• Email from Secretary of State

• Develop a Plan• Contact Town• Contact MSO• Contact Art

Department• Choose a Site

• Publicity• Fundraising• Purchase Materials• Get Volunteers• Get Professionals• Install Memorial• Dedication Ceremony

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Background

The President, in the name of Congress,Has awarded more than 3,400 Medals ofHonor to our nation's bravest Soldiers,Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and CoastGuardsmen since the decoration'screation in 1861.

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Criteria for Award

The Medal of Honor is awarded by the President, in thename of Congress, to a person who, while a member ofthe Army, distinguishes himself or herself conspicuously bygallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her life aboveand beyond the call of duty while engaged in actionagainst an enemy of the United States; while engaged inmilitary operations involving conflict with an opposingforeign force; or while serving with friendly foreign forcesengaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerentparty.

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Criteria Continued

The deed performed must have been one of personal bravery or self-sacrifice so conspicuous as to clearly distinguish the individual above his or her comrades and must have involved risk of life. Incontestable proof of the performance of the service will be exacted and each recommendation for the award of this decoration will be considered on the standard of extraordinary merit.

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Historical Medals of Honor

Army1896

Tiffany Cross1919

Navy1862

Army1904

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CurrentMedal of Honor

Designs

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Army

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Navy/Marine Corps/Coast Guard

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Air Force

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Civil War

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Old Town’s Medal of Honor Recipient

Brigadier General (then Captain)LEWELLYN G. ESTES

Old Town, Maine

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CitationRank and organization: Captain and Assistant Adjutant General, Volunteers.

Place and date: At Flint River, Georgia, 30 August 1864.

Entered service at: Penobscot, Maine.

Birth: Old Town, Maine.

Date of issue: 29 August 1894.

Citation: Voluntarily led troops in a charge over a burning bridge.

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Late in the afternoon of August 30, 1864, General Howard's advancing Union Infantry camped about four miles from the Flint River in Georgia. Without water for his exhausted troops, General Howard asked Captain Lewellyn Estes if he would take his Cavalry in an effort to get water from the river for the troops. Valiantly, at the head of his command, Captain Estes led the 96th Illinois Cavalry on a charge against the Confederate barricade at the river. Within an hour his fierce charge, which had caught the rebels entirely by surprise, scattered the enemy force and sent them across the river. Returning to his command, and upon being congratulated by General Howard, Captain Estes asked, "Do you want me to take the bridge." "Can you do it?" General Howard asked. Captain Estes replied that he could and, with the general's permission, led two regiments of dismounted cavalry back to the river. With two companies of the 10th Ohio, Captain Estes charged across the bridge to rout the enemy. At the time of his charge the bridge was burning in several places, but armed only with a revolver, Captain Estes continued at the head of his men, crossing and driving the enemy back far enough for the rest of General Howard's Army to also cross.

Historical Account of the Event

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Historical Account of the Event

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Historical Account of the Event

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School Community Partners

• Army JROTC Class

• Ms. Rice’s Art Class - Pencil Drawing

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Curriculum Linkages

Leadership

Citizenship Planning

CoordinatingWritingSkills

JROTC

Research

InternetSkills

How GovtWorks

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Art Classes - Painting

• Contact Art Department at School

• Develop and Create a work of art

• Use the artwork to help in fundraising efforts

• Create a painting and sculpture of the event.

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Curriculum Linkages

Art History

Planning

Coordinating

Creativity ArtClass

InternetSkills

ResearchSkills

Use ofMedia

Interpretation

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Community Partners• Old Town School Department SLO• City of Old Town Maine• Office of the Maine Secretary of State• Old Town Businesses• Community Leaders • Military Service Organizations - MOWW • Community Service Organizations• Center for Military History

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Community Needs Met

• Preserve Town History creating a connection to the past.

• Recognition of a Town Hero

• Positive Role Model for Citizens of Old Town

• Source of Civic Pride

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