Union Army Balloon Corps | Wikipedia audio article
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Union Army Balloon Corps


00:01:32 1 Selecting a Chief Aeronaut
00:02:51 1.1 Thaddeus Lowe
00:05:38 1.2 John Wise
00:08:01 1.3 John LaMountain
00:09:40 1.3.1 Free flight vs. captive flight
00:12:37 2 Building military balloons
00:16:44 3 Establishing the Corps
00:18:12 4 First aircraft carrier
00:18:57 5 Peninsula Campaign
00:21:18 6 Confederate Army's counter
00:24:34 7 Troubled Balloon Corps
00:26:40 8 After the Civil War
00:28:11 9 See also
00:28:23 10 Notes and references
00:28:32 11 Bibliography
00:30:08 12 External links



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The Union Army Balloon Corps was a branch of the Union Army during the American Civil War, established by presidential appointee Thaddeus S. C. Lowe. It was organized as a civilian operation, which employed a group of prominent American aeronauts and seven specially built, gas-filled balloons to perform aerial reconnaissance on the Confederate States Army.
Lowe was one of few veteran balloonists who was working on an attempt to make a transatlantic crossing by balloon. His efforts were interrupted by the onset of the Civil War, which broke out one week before one of his most important test flights. Subsequently, he offered his aviation expertise to the development of an air-war mechanism through the use of aerostats for reconnaissance purposes. Lowe met with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on June 11, 1861, and proposed a demonstration with his own balloon, the Enterprise, from the lawn of the armory directly across the street from the White House. From a height of 500 feet (150 m) he telegraphed a message to the President describing his view of the Washington, D.C., countryside. Eventually he was chosen over other candidates to be chief aeronaut of the newly formed Union Army Balloon Corps.
The Balloon Corps with a hand-selected team of expert aeronauts served at Yorktown, Seven Pines, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and other major battles of the Potomac River and the Virginia Peninsula. The Balloon Corps served the Union Army from October 1861 until the summer of 1863, when it was disbanded following the resignation of Lowe.