Lincoln's Flying Spies: Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps
by Jarrow, Gail
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AR Book Level
7.8
AR Points
3
Word Count
19,355
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
138139 EN
About this book
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.
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