. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . treating Con-federates, which showed me that our army had not gotten alongas fast as it was expected, and I could occasionally see a fewscouts on horseback on the hills beyond. I saw my helpless [ 372 1 wM w/ f/M ///// \ m Professor T. S. C. Lowe appearshere standing by his father incamp before the battle of FairOaks, explaining by means of anengineers map the service he pro-posed to render the Union is the balloon from whichGeneral George Stoneman, Mc-( ld
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . treating Con-federates, which showed me that our army had not gotten alongas fast as it was expected, and I could occasionally see a fewscouts on horseback on the hills beyond. I saw my helpless [ 372 1 wM w/ f/M ///// \ m Professor T. S. C. Lowe appearshere standing by his father incamp before the battle of FairOaks, explaining by means of anengineers map the service he pro-posed to render the Union is the balloon from whichGeneral George Stoneman, Mc-( ldlans cavalry leader on thePeninsula, and Professor Lowewere able to look into the windowsof Richmond. In this balloon alsoProfessor Lowe was telegraphing,reporting, and sketching during thebattle of May 31-June 1st. and itwas from his night observations atthis time that came knowledge onwhich McClellan acted in savinghis army. On arriving in sight ofRichmond, Lowe took observationsto ascertain the best location forcrossing the Chickahominy Riverand sketched the place where the. Grapevine or Sumner Bridgewas afterward built across thatstream. His main station and per-sonal camp lay on Gaines Hill,four miles from Mechanicsville,overlooking the bridge where thearmy was to cross. Desperateefforts were made by the Confeder-ates at Mechanicsville to destroythe observation balloon in order toconceal their movements. At onepoint they masked twelve of theirbest rifled cannon; while ProfessorLowe was taking an early morningobservation, the whole twelve gunswere simultaneously discharged atshort range, some of the shellspassing through the rigging of theballoon and nearly all bursting notmore than two hundred feet beyondit. Professor Lowe immediatelychanged his base of operations,and escaped the imminent danger. PROFESSOR LOWE AND HIS FATHER
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