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Old Fly , in the museum of the New Harmony Working Men's Institute, is the only Civil War Horse skeleton still on display in any museum in the United States.

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Old Fly served in the First Indiana Cavalry under Captain James Penn Bennett, who served as the Director of the Working Men's Institute from 1848-1850, and from 1853-1855.

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Captain Bennett was killed at the Siege of Atlanta, but Old Fly managed to come home alive.

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Old Fly is the subject of a book about the Civil War and his service in it. The book is titled "Fly Like the Wind."

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All of the paste papers cockle as they dry, and have to be ironed to flatten them out. The thicker the application of paste, the more they cockle as they dry; this is an extreme example of one that had a LOT of paste applied.

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Uploaded on Jan 4, 2011

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