Jack Hitt
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849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And suddenly, Thaddeus Lowe is the chief aeronaut of the United States Balloon Corps.
Well, they were terrifying.
When the Confederates realized what these things were, that these were observatory balloons, they would shoot at them.
In fact, at first, it was like ignorant Romans perceiving Hannibal's elephants.
It's like, oh my God, what are these?
And they just unleash fusillades of fire on these balloons.
But of course, their guns couldn't ever mile up.
They couldn't reach anywhere close.
And in fact, Lowe sort of took delight in the fact that the Confederates were just using up all their ammo on his balloons.
And they moved it up and down the Potomac River so they could move their balloon into place up and down in different battles along the edge of this river.
Now, what that typically meant was somebody important, right?
Officers were on horseback.
And so he sent word down the line, aim your cannons over here.
There's a bunch of officers over here, bombard here.
And they do, they come close but miss.
And those guys scatter.
And years afterwards, in a century war book, General James Longstreet wrote a little passage about how at one point they were amazed because President Jefferson Davis said,
general robert e lee general james longstreet probably stonewall jackson too were all there with their staff at this one moment and then he writes it was impossible for the enemy to see us as we sat on our horses in this little field surrounded by tall heavy timber and thick undergrowth and yet a battery by chance had our range in our exact distance and poured upon us a terrifying fire
But it was not by chance.
So not by chance.
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