Old Abe, a spirited bald eagle with legend-inspiring powers, was the Civil War's most famous mascot. This picture book account of Abe's adventures brings the battlefield to life as readers join Company C of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers and experience the rigors of war, trusting Old Abe to be their guide and lift their spirits.

The story of Old Abe, the bald eagle that became the mascot of the Eighth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. It is also the story of the men among whom Old Abe lived: the farmers, loggers, clerks, and immigrants who flocked to the colors in 1861. Reissued in 2012 with a new cover.

An activity book that presents information about Old Abe, an Eagle that was the mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War.

Best Books of the Month: Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the brink of extinction. Filled with spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers, and the lives of bald eagles themselves—monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world’s finest parents—The Bald Eagle is a much-awaited cultural and natural history that demonstrates how this bird’s wondrous journey may provide inspiration today, as we grapple with environmental peril on a larger scale.

Includes a list of the names of steamboats that have navigated the upper Mississippi above St. Louis from 1823 to the close of navigation in 1896; and the dates of opening and closing of navigation from 1856, when such a record was begun, to 1896.