The preserved head of Old Baldy, the horse that carried Union Gen. George Gordon Meade through fighting at Gettysburg, is returning home to the Grand Army of the Republic Museum and Library in the city's Frankford section. Meade was trying to blunt a Confederate advance on July 2, 1863, when a musket ball struck the horse, said Andy Waskie, a Civil War historian, author, and Temple University professor who serves on the board of the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library. Old Baldy had been wounded several times in other battles and always continued on, Waskie said. That time, he had to retire. He was sent to a friend of Meade's who agreed to care for him on his farm in Downingtown.