"During the whole period of my employment, I have directed all my mental and physical energies to secure the success of our forces. I have never shrunk from the discharge of my duty, however hazardous, and holding no commission I have often been perplexed and put to inconvenience in doing the business of the Aeronautical Department which properly belonged to a commissioned officer. But for want of one acquainted with the business I was compelled to do it myself, I have also at all times been exposed to the danger of being treated as a spy had I fallen into the hands of the enemy."
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Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe's resignation from the Union Army Balloon Corps, (August 1, 1863) as quoted in Army, Volume 30, (August 1980), p.41.
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