The Capital Region Land Conservancy has added the richly historic property to a larger patchwork of 6,000 protected acres. These lands are also known for their ecological value.
One hundred and sixty-one years ago this month, the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War raged in Sharpsburg, Md. Called the Battle of Antietam by Northerners and the Battle
Balloon Corps, civilian aeronautical unit (1861–63) created during the American Civil War to provide aerial surveillance of Confederate troops for the Union army. Balloons supported Union campaigns from ground stations and naval vessels in the Peninsular Campaign, the capture of Island Number Ten, the Savannah Campaign, and the Battle of Chancellorsville. Most balloonists before 1861 made their living as carnival performers and itinerant “professors” of chemistry. Both Thaddeus S.C. Lowe of New Hampshire and John La Mountain of New York combined entertainment with long-distance test flights. Both men also employed balloons as aerial observation platforms for the Union army. Aeronauts
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