Lincoln's Flying Spies: Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps by Gail Jarrow

Lincoln's Flying Spies: Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps

Gail Jarrow

112 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative
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On June 1, 1862, Thaddeus Lowe floated above a fierce Civil War battle in a silk hydrogen balloon. From the wicker basket dangling a thousand feet above ground, he telegraphed a message to Northern generals on the ground: Union troops were finally...

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