Spec Ops History: Early Hot Air Balloons in the Civil War
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Thaddeus Lowe presented detailed proposals and demonstrations to President Lincoln.
Lowe succeeded in persuading President Lincoln and the Union brass that his balloons could be useful surveillance tools during the Civil War.
With the Civil War about to erupt in April 1861, Thaddeus S.C. Lowe decided to fly his hot air balloon from Cincinnati to Washington, D.C., to offer aerial services to President Abraham Lincoln and the Union cause. However, a rogue wind blew …Read the Rest
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