Lincoln's Flying Spies: Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps cover

Lincoln's Flying Spies: Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps

Author: Jarrow, Gail

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 7.8
Points 3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 19355
Points per Word 0.000155
Page Count 109
Points per Page 0.027523

Description

This book details accounts of Lowe's efforts to provide intelligence to Union forces during the American Civil War, detailing how he telegraphed messages to the War Department in Washington from a silk hydrogen balloon that floated over the battlefield.