<br><p><b>Identifier</b>: photographichist08mill (<a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;profile=default&amp;fulltext=Search&amp;search=insource%3A%2Fphotographichist08mill%2F">find matches</a>)<br><b>Title</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidphotographichist08mill">The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities</a><br><b>Year</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1911">1911</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1910">1910s</a>)<br><b>Authors</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorMiller__Francis_Trevelyan__1877_1959">Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorLanier__Robert_S___Robert_Sampson___1880_">Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-</a><br><b>Subjects</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectUnited_States____History_Civil_War__1861_1865_Pictorial_works">United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectUnited_States____History_Civil_War__1861_1865">United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865</a><br><b>Publisher</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherNew_York___Review_of_Reviews_Co_">New York : Review of Reviews Co.</a><br><b>Contributing Library</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorNew_York_Public_Library">New York Public Library</a><br><b>Digitizing Sponsor</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorMSN">MSN</a><br><br><b>View Book Page</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/photographichist08mill/photographichist08mill#page/n384/mode/1up">Book Viewer</a><br><b>About This Book</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/photographichist08mill">Catalog Entry</a><br><b>View All Images</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidphotographichist08mill">All Images From Book</a><br>
Click here to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/photographichist08mill/photographichist08mill#page/n384/mode/1up"><b>view book online</b></a> to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.<br><br><b>Text Appearing Before Image:</b><br><i>ing, May .31st, I took another observa-tion, continuing the same until the sun lighted up the roads.The atmosphere was perfectly clear. I knew exactly where tolook for their line of inarch, and soon discovered one, then two.and then three columns of troops with artillery and ammuni-tion wagons moving toward the position occupied by GeneralHeintzelmans command. All this information was conveyed to the commandinggenera), who, on hearing my report that the force at both endsof the bridge was too slim to finish it that morning, immediatelysent more men to work on it. I used the balloon Washington at Mechanicsville forobservations, until the Confederate army was within four orfive miles of our lines. I then telegraphed my assistants toinflate the large balloon. Intrepid, in case anything should hap-pen to either of the other two. This order was quickly carriedout, and I then took a six-mile ride on horseback to my cam))on Gaines Hill, and made another observation from the balloon (378) \/k</i><br><b>Text Appearing After Image:</b><br><i>RIOT PUB. CO. THE PHOTOGRAPH THE BALLOONIST RECOGNIZED FORTY-EIGHT YEARS AFTER When I saw the photograph showing my inflation of the balloon Intrepid to reconnoiter the battle ofFair Oaks, wrote Professor T. S. C. Lowe in the American Review of Reviews for February, 1911, it sur-prised me very much indeed. Any one examining the picture will see my hand at the extreme right, restingon the network, where I was measuring the amount of gas already in the balloon, preparatory to completingthe inflation from gas in the smaller balloon in order that I might ascent to a greater height. Tins I didwithin a space of five minutes, saving a whole hour at the most vital point of the battle. A close examina-tion of this photograph will reveal Professor Lowes hand resting on the network of the balloon, although hisbody is not in the photograph. It truly is remarkable that Professor Lowe should have seen and recognized,nearly half a century afterward, this photograph taken at one of the most critical</i><br><br><b>Note About Images</b><br></p>
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