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Old Abe the Live Eagle of Wisconsin in Civil War Glory
A detailed chronicle of Old Abe, the famous bald eagle adopted by the Eighth Wisconsin Volunteers, his daring battlefield presence from 1861 to 1864, and his life after the war. The account notes his perch in battle, public exhibitions, stockpiled feathers, and his death at twenty years old in Madison Wisconsin. It also includes contemporary opinion on political figures and a curious 1816 weather oddity year.
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Chippeway
Wisconsin
Perkins
Eau Claire
Wis
Madison
Highth
Wisconsin Volunteers
Brown
Abe
Eighth Wisconsin
Abe Mis
Live Eagle Regiment
Corinth
Old Abe
Grant
Vicksburg
Abe Wis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Agricultural Hall
Philadelphia
Old Sin Church
Boston
Nerer
Capitol
Henry Cabot
United States
West
Washington
Des Moines Register
Bay
America
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senator Lodge
Republican Party
American Progress
United States Senate
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Newton
Mass
Hopkinton
N. H
Salem
Massachusetts
Williamstown
Cabot