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Service Learning Project Medal of Honor Memorial Old Town, Maine

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Service Learning Project Medal of Honor Memorial Old Town, Maine

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  1. Service Learning Project Medal of Honor Memorial Old Town, Maine

  2. Mission A 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.

  3. 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 The Process

  4. Background The President, in the name of Congress, Has awarded more than 3,400 Medals of Honor to our nation's bravest Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen since the decoration's creation in 1861.

  5. Criteria for Award The Medal of Honor is awarded by the President, in the name of Congress, to a person who, while a member of the Army, distinguishes himself or herself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in action against an enemy of the United States; while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.

  6. 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.

  7. Historical Medals of Honor Navy 1862 Tiffany Cross 1919 Army 1904 Army 1896

  8. Current Medal of Honor Designs

  9. Army

  10. Navy/Marine Corps/Coast Guard

  11. Air Force

  12. Civil War

  13. Old Town’s Medal of Honor Recipient Brigadier General (then Captain) LEWELLYN G. ESTES Old Town, Maine

  14. Citation Rank 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.

  15. Historical Account of the Event 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.

  16. Historical Account of the Event

  17. Historical Account of the Event

  18. School Community Partners • Army JROTC Class • Ms. Rice’s Art Class - Pencil Drawing

  19. Curriculum Linkages How Govt Works Research Leadership JROTC Planning Citizenship Writing Skills Coordinating Internet Skills

  20. 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.

  21. Curriculum Linkages Research Skills Art History Use of Media Art Class Planning Creativity Internet Skills Interpretation Coordinating

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. Questions?

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