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In the winter of 1862-1863, this site, once part of the Phillips property and occupied by the Union Army, became the launch site for Aeronaut Thaddeus Lowe's reconnaissance balloons. The tethered balloon Eagle carried General Edwin Sumner's staff officer, Lt. Col. William Teall, to a height of 900 feet to observe and report troop movements during the Battle of Fredericksburg.
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Grafton Village, Virginia · United States
