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Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
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Balloon Enterprise. Washington, D.C. 16 June 1861
To President United States:
This point of observation commands an area nearly fifty miles in diameter. The city with its girdle of encampments presents a superb scene. I have pleasure in sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from an aerial station and in acknowledging indebtedness to your encouragement for the opportunity of demonstrating the availability of the science of aeronautics in the service of the country. T.S.C. Lowe
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
First airborne telegraph message, demonstrating the reconnaissance capabilities of balloons. From the tethered Enterprise about 500 feet above Constitution Mall, Washington DC. The message was seen that day by President Lincoln. Soon after the Military Aeronautics Corps was formed. Quoted in the 1983 book The Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America.
A hawk hovering above a chicken yard could not have caused more commotion than did my balloons when they appeared before Yorktown.
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
Describing the view of the 1862 Siege of Yorktown from the Intrepid. In his Civil War memoirs written in 1911 but not published till 2004, Memoirs of Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, Chief of the Aeronautic Corps of the Army of the United States During the Civil War: My Balloons in Peace and War. 
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