. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . rt£ PROFESSOR LOWE IN HIS BALLOON AT A CRITICAL MOMENT As soon as Professor Lowes balloon soars above the top of the trees the Confederate batteries will open upon him, and for the nextfew moments shells and bullets from the shrapnels will be bursting and whistling about his ears. Then he will pass out of the danger-zone to an altitude beyond the reaeh of the Confederate artillery. After the evacuation of Yorktown, May 4, 1802. Professor Lowe,who had been making daily observations from his balloon, followed MeCIellans divisions
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . rt£ PROFESSOR LOWE IN HIS BALLOON AT A CRITICAL MOMENT As soon as Professor Lowes balloon soars above the top of the trees the Confederate batteries will open upon him, and for the nextfew moments shells and bullets from the shrapnels will be bursting and whistling about his ears. Then he will pass out of the danger-zone to an altitude beyond the reaeh of the Confederate artillery. After the evacuation of Yorktown, May 4, 1802. Professor Lowe,who had been making daily observations from his balloon, followed MeCIellans divisions, which was to meet Longstreet next day atWilliamsburg. On reaching the fortifications of the abandoned city, Lowe directed the men who were towing the still inflated balloonin which he was riding to scale the corner of the fort nearest to his old camp, where the last gun had been fired the night before. Thisfort had devoted a great deal of effort to attempting to damage the too inquisitive balloon, and a short time previously one of the bestConfederate guns had bur
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