How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
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The Infernal Balloon: Union Aeronautics During the American Civil War
C. Lowe, Memoirs of Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, Chief of the Aeronautic Corps of the Army of the United States During the Civil War: My Balloons in Peace and War, eds. Michael Jaeger and Carol Lauritzen ...