Return of the Eagle: How America Saved Its National Symbol (Greg Breining, Frank Oberle - A) CD Speirs became a foxhole legend

Speirs became a foxhole legend among his troops

June 1863 is the first in-depth study of these crucial summer days that not only shaped the course of the Gettysburg Campaign

Hilary Green

reversing decades of misconceptions about an amazing story of two friends that has defined the Civil War

its bloodshed

Return of the Eagle: How America Saved Its National Symbol (Greg Breining, Frank Oberle - A) CD Speirs became a foxhole legendby Greg Breining (Author), Frank Oberle (Photographer) This is the story of how a nation reversed a silent spring and saved the bald eagle from extinction. This bird of prey was declared the national symbol in 1782 but, by the 1960s, pollution and development had wiped out all but a few dozen. Grassroots movements started, the American consciousness was raised to all environmental threats, and federal laws were passed to keep the eagle population