The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

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 ...

1794-1945—Balloons Used in Wars: From the U.S. Civil War, through World Wars I and II balloons are used as tools for warfare, for transportation surveying, and communication.

“Jim will probably be the one to write the definitive book [on Lowe],” says Crouch, who should know, since he’s an expert on Civil War ballooning himself. A balloon crew from Digital Design ...

His research focuses on ballooning in the Civil War. Smithsonian/Mark Avino The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is home to some of the titans of aviation history—think the ...