“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries
built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just a year and a half, the quest has
grown to over two hundred seventy caches hidden in twenty-seven
Indiana counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown
to ten cacher teams, nine of which of which are comprised of
Dogs and their Humans. Over 480 cacher
teams have logged over 5,400 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ
caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
(Photos by LEAD DOG)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#265
”The Medal of Honor!"
Welcome to New Haven IOOF Cemetery in
Adams Township, Allen County.
We have information that The grave of Lt.
Allan Dougall, a Civil War recipient of the Medal of Honor is
located in this cdmetery, but we could not find it. If any one can
locate it, either here or elsewhere and posts a photo of it and
coordinates, we will grant an additional smiley here.***
Bluegillfisherman found it on 19 May 2006: "I lucked out and found
the resting place of Capt. Allen H. Dougall. It's only 213ft @200°
from the cache" Offer of free smiley for coords and photo still in
play!*** No longer!! Che K wins!!! 10-25-2006--Took long
enuff!!
WHERE IS
DOUGALL, ALLAN H.
Rank and Organization: First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 88th
Indiana Infantry. Place and Date: At Bentonville, N.C., 19 March
1865. Entered Service At: New Haven, Allen County, Ind. Birth: July
17, 1836, Scotland. Date of Issue: 16 February 1897. Death: May 22,
1912 at the age of 75.
Citation:
In the face of a galling fire from the enemy he voluntarily
returned to where the color bearer had fallen wounded and saved the
flag of his regiment from capture. Lt. Dougall was one of four
soldiers who earned the Medal of Honor for personal courage in the
Battle of Bentonville, N.C.
We would like to dedicate this cache to
a modern Medal of Honor recipient:
SFC PAUL SMITH
Sergeant First Class Paul Smith was awarded the MOH
posthumously on April 4, 2005, for action in Iraq, the second
anniversary of his death.
His was the first award of our nation’s highest award
for valor, since two were awarded for action in Somalia in
1993.
Smith was a veteran of the 1991 Gulf War and served in Bosnia
and Kosovo, and Saudi Arabia before being deployed to Iraq.
Smith’s heroic action in manning a .50 calibre machine
gun atop an abandoned armored personnel carrier, is credited with
saving the lives of over 100 of his comrades. A member of the 2nd
Plt., B Co., 11th Engineers, 3rd Infantry Division, He single
handedly beat off an enemy attack before sucumbing to automatic
weapon fire induced wounds. He was the only Coalition casualty in
the firefight. .
no NIGHT CACHING !
The cache container was a 35
mm film can, now it's a plastic fruit jar. BYOP. .The
cache is not located near a grave... . As always, please be
respectful, and cache in, trash out!
None genuine without this official SixDogTeam
seal. Digital photographs taken by Lead Dog, (C) 2005 by RikSu
Outfitters unless otherwise noted.
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