Union Army observation balloon grounded due to lightning within five miles
The following is an article by author Malachi Alvord van Kirk from the September 1861 issue of Duffel Blog’s Civil War-era predecessor, The Knapsack Gazette.
FORT CORCORAN, Va. — Union Army Balloon Corps chief Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe recently had to ground his observation balloon due to the occurrence of lightning within five nautical miles of…
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