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A New Perspective on War: The Union Army Balloon Corps and the Introduction of Aerial Reconnaissance in the American Civil War

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on October 5, 2026

Known and Unknown: Civil War Balloonists and their Forgotten Monument

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on October 16, 2025

America’s First Air Force: Union Aeronauts and McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign, Part Four – Davis, Lee, and Longstreet Were Standing in a Field

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on May 13, 2022

America’s First Air Force: Union Aeronauts and McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign, Part Three – Gaines’ Farm Station

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on May 12, 2022

America’s First Air Force: Union Aeronauts and McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign Part Two – A Novel Contraption

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on May 11, 2022

America’s First Air Force: Union Aeronauts and McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign Part One – Maker of Water

by ECW Guest Post

Posted on May 10, 2022