Confederate Navy Air Force

The United States Civil War is one of the most extensively studied events in all U.S.

history. Numerous historians and scholars have devoted their entire careers to

documenting the chronology of events, the minute details of individual battles, and the

details of the lives of those who lived and died in the conflict that divided our nation

against itself so early in it's existence. It would be easy to conclude that very little of

the history of this era

has been overlooked.

The recent discovery

of top level

Confederate military

documents has

revealed that the

Confederate Navy had

undertaken a secret

project that may well

have turned the

course of the war by

means of aerial

attacks, carried out by

biplanes launched

from sail powered

aircraft carriers. A

prototype of such a

craft was built, as were several of the attendant biplanes. To date, one photograph has

been recovered of the prototype aircraft carrier, clearly showing two biplanes in the

process of launching from the deck of the ship. According to the accompanying

documents, this photo was taken from a hot air balloon in the vicinity of the launch.

Restoration of other related documents continues, and it is hoped that they will reveal

further details of the secret program, including the location of the test site and the

ultimate fate of the craft.