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Chesapeake Bay (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
collect my thoughts and breathe more freely. I now began to recover my composure, when a most horrid thought intruded itself upon me. Whatever goes up is bound to come down, is a trite, but a sad, true saying. I knew well I could not remain in this security forever; in fact, every moment that passed the hot air in my balloon became cooler. I therefore set to work. From my elevated position I could see the whole country in every direction. A wonderful panorama spread out beneath me. Chesapeake Bay, the York and the James rivers, Old Point Comfort and Hampton, and the fleets lying in both the York and the James, and the two opposing armies lying facing each other. I therefore took out my note-book and made a rough diagram showing the rivers, the roads and creeks, and marking where the different bodies of the enemy's troops were upon this little map, using the initial I for infantry, C for cavalry, A for artillery, and W for wagon trains, and I marked down about the number of troop
Birmingham (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
ay facing the Confederates. His experience was similar to that of Captain Bryan's, in that his balloon rope broke and his balloon also drifted aimlessly in the air. General Porter's balloon was a much more expensive affair than the one the Confederates could afford, and was attached to the ground by a silken rope. Although General Porter escaped without injury in this adventure, the exploit is now recorded in bronze upon a monument to him. Capt. Randolph Bryan at present resides in Birmingham, Ala. He is the eldest brother of Mr. Joseph Bryan of this city, of Mr. St. George T. C. Bryan, and of the Rev. Braxton Bryan, of Petersburg. Captain Bryan's story. The story is given as told by Captain Bryan. He says: I was a young man at the time the events here mentioned transpired, and was serving as clerk in the Adjutant-General's office and acting as aide-de-camp to Major-General J. B. Magruder, then commanding the Army of the Peninsula, near Yorktown, Va. In the spring o
Old Point (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
I now began to recover my composure, when a most horrid thought intruded itself upon me. Whatever goes up is bound to come down, is a trite, but a sad, true saying. I knew well I could not remain in this security forever; in fact, every moment that passed the hot air in my balloon became cooler. I therefore set to work. From my elevated position I could see the whole country in every direction. A wonderful panorama spread out beneath me. Chesapeake Bay, the York and the James rivers, Old Point Comfort and Hampton, and the fleets lying in both the York and the James, and the two opposing armies lying facing each other. I therefore took out my note-book and made a rough diagram showing the rivers, the roads and creeks, and marking where the different bodies of the enemy's troops were upon this little map, using the initial I for infantry, C for cavalry, A for artillery, and W for wagon trains, and I marked down about the number of troops that I estimated at each point. Now, this
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
1862, when General McClellan, of the Union Army, decided to make his advance on Richmond by the Peninsula route, with his two flanks guarded by gun-boats, he found Gen. Magruder entrenched across the Peninsula at Yorktown, from the York to the James river. Hardly had McClellen made his appearance when General Johnston, with the Army of Northern Virginia, came to the relief of Magruder, who with but a few thousand men was holding the Union army in check. The line across the Peninsula was an irry moment that passed the hot air in my balloon became cooler. I therefore set to work. From my elevated position I could see the whole country in every direction. A wonderful panorama spread out beneath me. Chesapeake Bay, the York and the James rivers, Old Point Comfort and Hampton, and the fleets lying in both the York and the James, and the two opposing armies lying facing each other. I therefore took out my note-book and made a rough diagram showing the rivers, the roads and creeks, and
York (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
dquarters at Major Lee's house, nearer the James River, some miles farther along the line from York river. General Johnston had brought down with him from Richmond what I believe to be the first ballohole country in every direction. A wonderful panorama spread out beneath me. Chesapeake Bay, the York and the James rivers, Old Point Comfort and Hampton, and the fleets lying in both the York and thir stirring) over the Confederate army, and I was looking down to where, far below me, lay the York river and the surrounding country which I knew so well. Blown back and forth. I was not l and knew not which way to turn. However, the wind freshened again, and I was blown out over York river, which, although half a mile wide at Yorktown, is three or four miles wide where I was now suscan judge) made a halt moon circuit of about fifteen miles, about four miles of which was over York River. As to the height to which I attained I cannot well compute. The information which I was a
Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.13
n, while attached to General J. B. Magruder's headquarter's before Yorktown, we consider as well deserving publication, as it was (so far as kJ. B. Magruder, then commanding the Army of the Peninsula, near Yorktown, Va. In the spring of 1862, when General McClellan, of the Union Armn-boats, he found Gen. Magruder entrenched across the Peninsula at Yorktown, from the York to the James river. Hardly had McClellen made his tly strengthened their positions. Magruder's headquarters were at Yorktown, while Joseph E. Johnston took up his headquarters at Major Lee's lloon force was ordered to move to another point, somewhere nearer Yorktown, as the General did not think it safe that the balloons should go that occurrence. One night, just before the body fell back from Yorktown and fought the battle of Williamsburg (which was the 5th of May, 1as blown out over York river, which, although half a mile wide at Yorktown, is three or four miles wide where I was now suspended in the air.
J. B. Magruder (search for this): chapter 1.13
nsula route, with his two flanks guarded by gun-boats, he found Gen. Magruder entrenched across the Peninsula at Yorktown, from the York to tohnston, with the Army of Northern Virginia, came to the relief of Magruder, who with but a few thousand men was holding the Union army in chestreams and mill dams which greatly strengthened their positions. Magruder's headquarters were at Yorktown, while Joseph E. Johnston took up eing on the Peninsula for some days, General Johnston wrote to General Magruder, requesting him to detail some one who was thoroughly acquaintn's headquarters, passed through my hands, as I was chief clerk in Magruder's Adjutant-General's office, and being young, and, I fear, of a dathis service. Asked for the detail. Major Henry Bryan, Magruder's Adjutant-General, strongly dissuaded me from the undertaking, but I was so bent on it that I went in person to General Magruder and asked for the detail, which, after some little persuasion on my part, was
Henry Bryan (search for this): chapter 1.13
elt myself competent as to the other requirements). I therefore at once asked that I might be detailed for this service. Asked for the detail. Major Henry Bryan, Magruder's Adjutant-General, strongly dissuaded me from the undertaking, but I was so bent on it that I went in person to General Magruder and asked for thegraphical matters on the Peninsula. Having shown myself sufficiently familiar with these matters, the General then turned to Colonel Rhett and remarked, I think Mr. Bryan will do very well. You will please assign him to the balloon service to make the reconnoisances, and instruct him as to what information we want, and the kind oke the first one, but with somewhat less trepidation by General Johnston's only experienced aeronaut, who had already been nicknamed by his fellow soldiers Balloon Bryan, and who was suspected by them of having a screw loose somewhere on account of his mad trips in the air, General Johnston received the second report about as he di
Tobe Ward (search for this): chapter 1.13
te lines. It was evident that the balloon was cooling and settling, so that I was getting nearer and nearer to the earth. This was in many respects a great comfort, but it was not unalloyed with new dangers. As I have said, the balloon having now drawn near the earth (a few hundred feet above it I suppose) I was blown from the enemy's lines over the Confederate army, but, alas! in a far different locality from where I had ascended. Therefore, when my balloon passed over the spot where Col. Ward's Second Florida Regiment was encamped, they turned out en masse, and believing me to be a Yankee spy, followed me on foot, firing at me as fast as they could. In vain I cried to them that I was a good Confederate; the only answer I received was from the whistling of their bullets. I was as a thing haunted, and knew not which way to turn. However, the wind freshened again, and I was blown out over York river, which, although half a mile wide at Yorktown, is three or four miles wide whe
John Randolph Bryan (search for this): chapter 1.13
it has been the object of the Times-Dispatch to record as many as possible of these in the Confederate column of this paper. The following account of Capt. John Randolph Bryan's trips in a war balloon, while attached to General J. B. Magruder's headquarter's before Yorktown, we consider as well deserving publication, as it was the Confederates in order to ascertain the position and strength of the Union forces. It will add to the interest of this narrative to know that at the time Capt. Bryan was making his ascensions from the Confederate lines General Fitz John Porter was performing the same service for the Union army which lay facing the Confederates. His experience was similar to that of Captain Bryan's, in that his balloon rope broke and his balloon also drifted aimlessly in the air. General Porter's balloon was a much more expensive affair than the one the Confederates could afford, and was attached to the ground by a silken rope. Although General Porter escaped with
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