Vanished: John Wise, The Aeronaut Part 3, The Jupiter to the Vanishing

After the voyage of the air balloon Jupitar John Wise took his ballooning to a different area of exploration. He got the United States Postal Service to allow him to take 123 letters across the United States.
After that he was to take on the Confederacy in the civil war that need balloons for air spying and arial attacks. Along with making a suggestion to use hot air balloons to bomb in the Mexican war.
In the end John set out with George Burr to make a flight across Lake Michigan that is where John Wise would be last scene because they never found him or his balloon.