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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.36 (search)
. Peychaud, J. G. Pierson, John N. Payne, L. Parsons, Wm. H. Holmes, Sidney Harrison, J. D. P. Jones. Dave C. Johnston, J. S. Lehman, Monroe Mount, John P. Manico, F. A. St. Amant, H. W. Spencer, W. T. Saul, Thos. S. Turner, Charles H. Waldo, E. V. Wiltz. Second Company. Steve Britton, John A. Coakley, Hy. Carey, Thos. O. Dyer, C. A. Duval, Geo. W. Humphreys, Lieut. Sam Haines, J. L. Hock, Oscar Jewell, R. C. Lewis, Louis Miller, Wm. Mills, John R. McGowan, Geo. G. Strawbridge, C. Carter Twitchell, Robt. Urquhart, Jr., Philip Von Coln, T. H. H. Walker. Third Company. J. D. Blanchard, M. Napier Bartlett, Thomas Ballentine, Robert Bruce, George Bernard, M. Burke, Richard Bryant. Michael B. Cantrell, J. H. Colles, John W. Dempsey, artificer; Gen. Jas. Dearing, A. E. Grimmer, Stringer Kennedy. R. H. Kitchen, George H. Meek, C. B. Marmillon, P. W. Pettis, Sergeant; James W. Price, Wm. H. Pinckard, Fr
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Confederate airship. (search)
of Paris, remaining in the air twenty-five minutes. A balloon was used for military observation at the battle of Fleurus, fought in 1794. A great deal concerning aerostation can be found in books and newspapers, but there is one experiment that seems to have escaped the notice of the curious In the winter of 1864-‘65, General Robert E. Lee and his army were defending Petersburg, Va. The troops were stretched out along the lines perhaps at the rate of one to every one hundred yards. McGowan's Brigade held the works not far from battery forty-five (or the Star Fort), and near where the great dam was built. One cold, raw day the brigade was called out, without arms, to hear a speech from a scientific personage, who was introduced as Professor Blank. The old soldiers crowded around and took their seats on the ground and he unfolded his scheme for demoralizing and driving away Grant's army. He had just invented an airship. In shape it was something like a bird, and for that