Old Abe (May 27, 1861 – March 26, 1881) was a bald eagle who was the mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War. Later, his image was adopted as the eagle appearing on a globe in Case Corporation's logo and as the screaming eagle on the insignia of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.[2]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).The Wisconsin Veterans Museum and the University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center's Molecular Archaeology Group tested four Old Abe feathers from the museum's collection and found conclusively that Old Abe was a male eagle.