Drunk History, with Greg Kinnear playing Lowe and Stephen Merchant playing President Lincoln. The Civil War TV mini-series, The Blue and the Gray, features a scene with Thaddeus Lowe testing his observation balloon during the 1862 Peninsula campaign. Lowe is played by actor James Carroll Jordan. Notes References Manning, Mike, Intrepid: An Account of Prof. T. S. C. Lowe, Civil War Aeronaut and Hero. Lowe, Thaddeus, Official Report (to the Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton) (Parts I & II) (#11 & #12) O.R. - Series III - Volume III [S#124] Correspondence, Orders, Reports, and Returns of the Union Authorities From January 1 to December 31, 1863. Block, Eugene B., Above the Civil War, 1966. Hoehling, Mary, Thaddeus Lowe, America's One-Man Air Corps, 1958. Seims, Charles, Mount Lowe, The Railway in the Clouds, 1976. Evans, Charles M. The War of the Aeronauts: A History of Ballooning in the Civil War. Stackpole Books, 2002. Evans, Charles M., Air War Over Virginia, an on-line publication. Manning, Mike. Man, Mountain and Monument. 2001. Poleskie, Stephen, The Balloonist: The Story of T. S. C. Lowe—Inventor, Scientist, Magician, and Father of the U.S. Air Force. Frederic C. Beil, 2007. External links Altadena Historical Society's Mount Lowe site T.S.C Lowe site curated by his great great grandson Mount Lowe Preservation Society Library of Congress guide to resources on Civil War Aeronautics and Lowe 1832 births 1913 deaths American balloonists American chemists American inventors American railroad pioneers Aerial reconnaissance pioneers People from Jefferson, New Hampshire People from Pasadena, California People of New Hampshire in the American Civil War Altadena, California