Lincoln's flying spies : Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War balloon corps
Provides an account of Thaddeus Lowe's efforts to provide intelligence to Union forces during the American Civil War, detailing how he managed to telegraph messages to the War Department in Washington from a silk hydrogen balloon that floated over the battlefields.
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Calkins Creek
2010
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