. Die fotografische Geschichte des Bürgerkriegs : Tausende von Szenen fotografiert 1861-65, mit Text von vielen Sonderbehörden . Weinrebe oder Sumner Bridgewas später über den Bach gebaut. Seine Hauptstation und das Pro-sonal Lager lagen auf Gaines Hill, vier Meilen von Mechanicsville, mit Blick auf die Brücke, wo die meine überqueren sollte. Desperatebemühungen wurden von den Confeder-ates in Mechanicsville gemacht, um den Beobachtungsballon zu zerstören, um ihre Bewegungen zu verbergen. An einem Punkt maskierten sie zwölf der bestgezogenen Kanonen; während Professor Lowe eine frühe morgendliche Beobachtung machte, die ganze zwölf

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Grapevine or Sumner Bridgewas afterward built across thatstream. His main station and per-sonal camp lay on Gaines Hill, four miles from Mechanicsville, overlooking the bridge where thearmy was to cross. Desperateefforts were made by the Confeder-ates at Mechanicsville to destroythe observation balloon in order toconceal their movements. At onepoint they masked twelve of theirbest rifled cannon; while ProfessorLowe was taking an early morningobservation, the whole twelve gunswere simultaneously discharged atshort range, some of the shellspassing through the rigging of theballoon and nearly all bursting notmore than two hundred feet beyondit. Professor Lowe immediatelychanged his base of operations, and escaped the imminent danger. PROFESSOR LOWE AND HIS FATHER. AT BALLOON CAMP, GAINES HILL, WHILE THE TWO ARMIES WAITED £~A condition without my gunboat, the Coeur dc Lion, which hadserved me for the past year so well on the Potomac, Chesa-peake, and York, and which I had sent to Commodore Wilkesto aid him in the bombardment of Fort Darling, on theJames River, thinking I would have no further use for it.Therefore, all I had was the balloon-boat and the steam-tugand one hundred and fifty men with muskets, a large numberof wagons and gas-generators for three independent balloonoutfits. My balloon-boat was almost a facsimile of our firstlittle Monitor and about its size, and with the flag which I keptat the stern it had the appearance of an armed craft, which Ithink is all that saved me and my command, for the Monitorwas what the Confederates dreaded at that time more thananything else. After General Stoneman had left me at White House, I soon had a gas-generating apparatus beside a little pool ofwater, and from it extracted hydrogen enough in an h

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