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Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies; with a survey of military aeronautics prior to 1861. (reprint, 1941).


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Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies; with a survey of military aeronautics prior to 1861. (reprint reprint An individually bound copy of an article in a journal or science communication , 1941)

Haydon, F. Stansbury.

Scholar's Bookshelf

2006

421 pages

$29.95

Paperback

E492

In this study, Haydon investigates the development of aeronautics for military purposes during the Civil War. Coverage includes both the successes and failures of such aeronautical aer·o·nau·tic   also aer·o·nau·ti·cal
adj.
Of or relating to aeronautics.



aero·nau
 pioneers as James Allen James Allen is the name of:
  • James Allen (artist), a Northern Irish artist
  • James Allen (author) (1864–1912)
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  • James Allen (Formula One commentator) (born 1966)
, John Wise, John La Mountain, and T.S.C. Lowe. Haydon also describes the creation of the Balloon Service of the Army of the Potomac This article is about the Union army. For the Confederate army of the same name, see Army of the Potomac (Confederate).

The Army of the Potomac was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
. Some 55 b&w plates and a fold-out map are found at the back of the volume. The text is based upon the author's doctoral dissertation. This is a reprint of the original volume, which was published in 1941.

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