. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . PART IIMILITARY INFORMATION ARMYBALLOONS. OBSERVING THE BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS, MAY, 1862PROFESSOR LOWE IN HIS BALLOON THE BALLOONS WITH THE ARMYOF THE POTOMAC By T. S. C Lowe A personal reminiscence by Professor T. S. C. Lowe, who introducedand made balloon observations on the Peninsula for the Union army IT was through the midnight observations with one of mywar-balloons that I was enabled to discover that the fortifi-cations at Yorktown Mere being evacuated, and at my requestGeneral Heintzelman made a trip with me that he might con
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . PART IIMILITARY INFORMATION ARMYBALLOONS. OBSERVING THE BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS, MAY, 1862PROFESSOR LOWE IN HIS BALLOON THE BALLOONS WITH THE ARMYOF THE POTOMAC By T. S. C Lowe A personal reminiscence by Professor T. S. C. Lowe, who introducedand made balloon observations on the Peninsula for the Union army IT was through the midnight observations with one of mywar-balloons that I was enabled to discover that the fortifi-cations at Yorktown Mere being evacuated, and at my requestGeneral Heintzelman made a trip with me that he might con-firm the truth of my discovery. The entire great fortress wasablaze with bonfires, and the greatest activity prevailed, whichwas not visible except from the balloon. At first the generalwas puzzled on seeing more wagons entering the forts than weregoing out, but when I called his attention to the fact that theingoing wagons were light and moved rapidly (the wheels be-ing visible as they passed each camp-fire), while the outgoingwagons were heavily loaded and moved slowly, there was nolonger any dou
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