Research Catalog

Title

Military ballooning during the early Civil War / F. Stansbury Haydon.

Author

Haydon, Frederick Stansbury, 1908-

Publication

Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Crouch, Tom D.

Description

xxxiv, 421 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Describes the creation of the United States Balloon Corps during the Civil War, covering details such as fabric used to manufacture the balloons and the operation of mobile gas generators designed to inflate balloons, and discussing larger questions about technological change within a military bureaucracy. Includes b&w historical photos and illustrations.

Uniform Title

Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies

Alternative Title

Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies

Subject

• Wise, John, 1808-1879
• Allen, James, 1849-1933
• Lowe, T. S. C. 1832-1913
• La Mountain, John, 1830-1870
• United States. Balloon Section > History > 19th century
• 1800-1899
• Aeronautics, Military > United States > History > 19th century
• Balloons > United States > History > 19th century
• Aeronautics, Military > Confederate States of America
• Ballooning > United States > History > 19th century
• United States > Aerial operations > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States > Technology > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States > Balloons. > Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Originally published as Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies, with a survey of military aeronautics prior to 1861, vol. 1, by the Johns Hopkins Press, 1941"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Military Aeronautics Prior to 1861 1 -- II. James Allen: First Trial and Failure 39 -- III. John Wise: Second Trial and Failure 57 -- IV. John La Mountain: Free Lance Balloonist of the Army of the Potomac 82 -- V. The Early Career and Work of T.S.C. Lowe, Chief Aeronaut of the Army of the Potomac 154 -- VI. Two Months of Progress: Lowe's Operations, August-September, 1861 199 -- VII. The First American Air Force: The Balloon Service of the Army of the Potomac, Part One: Materiel and Personnel 228 -- VIII. The Balloon Service of the Army of the Potomac, Part Two: Administration 280 -- IX. The Balloon Service of the Army of the Potomac, Part Three: Operation 308 -- X. First Organized Service: Operations on the Potomac Lines, November, 1861-March, 1862 345 -- XI. Operations in the Department of the South and the Western Department 376.

ISBN

0801864429 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^99044060^

OCLC

43185801

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library