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A balloon ascends over the Potomac River after launch

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A balloon ascends over the Potomac River after launch from the USS George Washington Parke Custis, a Civil War Naval Aircraft Carrier, making reconnaissance of blockade, November 1861, near Budd's Ferry below Mount Vernon. (Drawing in Lowe Collection at National Archives, posted on U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command website).

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1861
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