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- Aug 25, 2012
Using balloons for observation seems to have mostly been done in the first half of the Civil War. I wonder why? Although both sides used balloons but it does not appear that either side found them useful enough to continue using then throughout the entire war. I am not sure if the information the balloons gathers was not valuable or if the armies found the use of balloons to expensive for the information obtained.
I also wonder what other nations thought of the use of balloons during the Civil War? I do know Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil asked Lowe to run Brazil's aeronautical corps during the war with Paraguay. Lowe passed but turned the offer over to the Allens who few reconnaissance missions for Brazil in 1867 and 1868.
So did European nations lean anything from the use of balloons during the American Civil War? I know Europe has used balloon before, but they should have leaned something from how balloons operated during the American Civil War.
I also wonder what other nations thought of the use of balloons during the Civil War? I do know Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil asked Lowe to run Brazil's aeronautical corps during the war with Paraguay. Lowe passed but turned the offer over to the Allens who few reconnaissance missions for Brazil in 1867 and 1868.
So did European nations lean anything from the use of balloons during the American Civil War? I know Europe has used balloon before, but they should have leaned something from how balloons operated during the American Civil War.