PROFESSOR THADDEUS LOWE

THE CIVIL WAR YEARS

(Courtesy of Smithsonian Institute)

Telegram to Abraham Lincoln from Balloon

Initial Ascensions of the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln Introduction Note

Thaddeus Lowe Commission Letter

Leontine Lowe During the Civil War

Thaddeus Lowe in Union Army Camp

Thaddeus Lowe & Clovis Lowe in Camp

Thaddeus Lowe on Horseback in Field

Portable Hydrogen Gas Generators

Thaddeus Lowe's Civil War Field Glasses

1861 - Getting the Aeronautic Up and Going

Observation from the George Washington Barge

Peninsula Campaign Balloon Operations

The Siege of Yorktown Observation

Balloon Being Filled With Hydrogen

Civil War Newspaper Drawings and Articles

Reconnaissance of Richmond Defenses - May 21, 1862

Directing Artillery Fire From the Air - May 23, 1862

Near Coup de Grace of Confederate Leadership - May 31, 1862

Intrepid Being Filled With Hydrogen - May 31, 1862

1885 Print of Aerial Observation - May 31, 1862

The Battle of Fair Oaks Observation - June 1, 1862

Map of Richmond Used by Lowe - June 14, 1862

Letter from Major General A. A. Humphreys - July 23, 1862

The Last Reconnaissance of the War Balloon on the James River - September 6, 1862

Letter from Major General George Stoneman to Thaddeus Lowe - July 10, 1863

Letter from Thaddeus Lowe to Professor Joseph Henry - July 15, 1863

The War of Rebellion Complete Correspondence - 1899

Civil War Dispatches: June 1861 - March 1862

Civil War Dispatches: March 1862 - May 1863

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army - 1865

Telegraphing in Battle - 1910

Review of Reviews Magazine - 1911

The Photographic History of the Civil War - 1911

Ballooning After Civil War Service

 

INDEX PAGE

BEFORE THE WAR

CIVIL WAR YEARS

INVENTIONS AND INDUSTRY

NORRISTOWN PENNSYLVANIA YEARS

PASADENA CALIFORNIA YEARS

MOUNT LOWE RAILWAY

AFTER THE RAILWAY

BOOKS ABOUT LOWE

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

EVENTS AND REUNIONS

ARTIFACTS AND HISTORY

ENCYCLOPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

ACCLAMATIONS AND AWARDS

LINKS TO OTHER THADDEUS LOWE WEBSITES