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The Civil War Balloon Corps
Sharing living and oral history
Civil War Aeronautics Recommended Reading List
Lincoln's Flying Spies by Gail Jarrow
The Eagle Aloft
by Tom Crouch
War of the Aeronauts
by Charles Evans
Military Ballooning During The Early Civil War
by F. Stansbury Haydon
Thaddeus Lowe: Uncle Sam's First Airman
by Lydel Sims
Thaddeus Lowe: America's One Man Air Corps
by Mary Hoehling
The Balloonist
by Stephen Poleskie
Memoirs of Thaddeus S.C. Lowe
by Thaddeus Lowe
The Air Arm of The Confederacy
by Joseph J. Cornish III
Falling Upwards
by Richard Holmes
With Brass And Gas
by Munson Baldwin
Above The Civil War
by Eugene Block
While the Balloon Corps only gets a sentence or a paragraph in books one usually reads about the Civil War - because those books are about specific personalities or battles - many are surprised to learn about these books dedicated to Civil War Aeronautics:
Fiction for younger readers:
Above The Fray -
Part Two
by Kris Jackson
Above The Fray -
Part One
by Kris Jackson
Adventure On The Wind
by Joan Piccard
How To Build & Fly
Hot Air and Hydrogen
Balloons
by John Wise
Runaway Balloon
The Last Flight of Confederate Air Force One
by Burke Davis
High Spy
by Robert Edmond Alter
The Young Balloonist
by Esther M. Douty