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How do you think the North won the war? lol
didn't know that but wouldn't those marsians just have obliterated the csaaf, anyway?
How do you think the North won the war? lol
Here is a treat it was Lincoln that got the Balloon corps off the ground with a note to Gen. Scott...Will Lieut Gen Scott please see Professor Lowe, over more about his balloon? A Lincoln
I mean that they would not be used that much and only for surveying and spying only.
i'm all for it, but both sides could as well have used a real airforce - why bother with balloons? trust the us mail for accuracy
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first airmail delivery from his BALLOON "Jupiter"
didn't know that but wouldn't those marsians just have obliterated the csaaf, anyway?
Depending on the degree to which it's expressed, the total-war concept is very old. The idea of total shutdown of non-military activity is either pretty new or as old as the hills purely by default - if your army is every non-child male, then functionally speaking you are shutting down your non-military economy whenever you muster the army.Yes, but them marsians only sent military advisors... How you think them Yankees came up with the Total War concept...?
Love <3, Love <3, Love <3 !!! Nicely done sir! I see model rail in the background and if you are so inclined I would love to see your interpretation of a Confederate rail car towing the "Gazelle" from Richmond to Fair OaksAn Airship I designed with a CW concept in mind. I found this thread and couldn't resist.
Yes, but them marsians only sent military advisors... How you think them Yankees came up with the Total War concept...?
Oddly the original Martian vehicles - which were specifically designed by Wells to be as far beyond the armies of the day as the armies of the day were beyond recently-contacted tribespeople - were functionally rendered completely obsolete by the military advances of the first half of the 20th century. The British Army in War of the Worlds gets a few successes by luck and pluck, but the Martians' point-and-shoot weapon and poison gas are too much for them to deal with; a battalion of Shermans would have been pretty nasty as a counter.It is well that they only sent advisors. Imagine how Sherman would be remembered if they had sent the 1st team.
Has anyone read this?
'Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate Armies: With a Survey of Military Aeronautics Prior To 1861' by Frederick Stansbury Haydon
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An illuminating study of the history of the development of air weapons for reconnaissance and offensive operations, usually thought to have only begun with WWI but which, the author shows, go back well before the American Civil War but saw important developments during that war. The book studies the work of such pioneers as James Allen, John Wise, John La Mountain, and T.S.C. Lowe, their failures and, in the case of Lowe, important successes in the creation of the Balloon Service of the Army of the Potomac. The book traces in detail the materiel and personnel, its administration and operation, and operations during the war. 55 plates including a fold-out map. Index. Reprint edition. 1941: 443 pages + plates.
REVIEW
In "Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume 1", F. Stansbury Haydon writes THE essential history of the Union Balloon Corps. Haydon begins his account with a study of previous uses of balloons during wartime in France and various early proposals for an American balloon corps. He then proceeds to biographical and historical analyses of the men who first attempted to create a balloon corps during the Civil War: James Allen, John Wise, and John La Mountain. Of these, La Mountain was most successful, but personality conflicts with Professor Thaddeus Lowe, a contemporary aeronaut, put an end to La Mountain's aspirations.
The bulk of Haydon's account focuses on the balloon corps under Lowe, beginning with Lowe's early work in August and September of 1861. The next chapters focus on the Balloon Service of the Army of the Potomac, with chapters dedicated to material and personnel, administration, and operation. Haydon ends with a description of the Balloon Corps' work from November 1861 - March 1862 and a look at attempts to utilize the balloons further south and out west.
Despite the book's title, Haydon never examines the Confederate balloon corps. He alludes to it on occasion and even mentions some of the southern aeronauts, but he may have intended to focus on this material in the never-written second volume. Even without the Confederate balloons, Haydon created an impressive historical work drawing extensively upon primary sources, from military records, private letters, newspaper accounts, and more. He corroborates or shows the error in Union aeronauts' observations with Confederate records of troop movements, demonstrating just how effective the balloon corps was. Haydon laments the army command's poor implementation of the balloons, quoting Joel Roberts Poinsett, who said "that such an innovation 'can only succeed in willing hands'" (p. 397). Haydon's book is a must-have for Civil War buffs and those interested in the history of science.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0405121814/?tag=civilwartalkc-20
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A tad pricey for the hardcover...
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Um, as to the cover illustrations, may I point out as an author that the cover design is almost never within an author's control