Wise was, however, taken seriously enough by the Topographical Engineers to be asked to build a balloon.
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On Henry's recommendation Lowe went on to form the United States Army/"Union Army" Balloon Corps and served two years with the Army of the Potomac as a Civil War "Aeronaut".