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Balloon Corps (United States history)
During the American Civil War, Union troops kept tabs on their Confederate rivals using the latest in 19th-century aviation technology: hot air balloons. Thaddeus S.C. Lowe of the Union army's Balloon Corps observing battle from the balloon Intrepid during the Peninsular Campaign of the American Civil War, May 1862. #EncyclopaediaBritannica