One solution: Balloons. Yes, balloons. And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon ...

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During the Civil War? That's a pretty tall claim ... a concerted effort to employ balloons in the war. By the time of the Balloon Corps was established, the little steamship Fanny was still ...

Balloons, tethered to the ground floated high ... Bryce Van Stavern, the Supervisor of Whitehouse Operations at the American Civil War Museum talks about these daring aeronauts on the newest ...

Here’s a look at this history. Both sides deployed them in the U.S. Civil War. The Confederate and Union armies used tethered balloons to observe troop movements in what Mr. Paone said was the ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...