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The short-lived Union Army Balloon Corps in the Civil War was in a way the U.S. military's first air force. The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, ...
MECHANICSVILLE, Va. - It was the Civil War's "Kitty Hawk moment," and it happened here when balloons manned by Confederate and Union aeronauts floated above a field of battle - ...
From the French Revolution to the Civil War, balloons loomed over battlefields. Join us in a time when an oddball inventor sent President Lincoln a decisive telegraph — from 500 feet above the ...
During the Civil War, the Union Army got a leg up (way up) on the Confederates by taking to the skies. Hot air balloons had been around since the first manned flight in 1783. In less than a decade ...
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