This video explores the role that hot air balloons had in the Civil War in terms of scouting enemy positions and providing information on the battlefield.

00:00 Development of Union Military Ballooning
00:22 Operation of Balloons in Battle
00:47 Balloons During the Peninsula Campaign
01:33 Other Uses of Balloons During the Civil War




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