Confederate Air Force

   
     Yes, there used to be a group of pilots who called their group "The Confederate Air Force", but they changed the name a dozen years ago when controversy over the name overtook them.

     For a while in the 1960's George Wallace used that name to promote his independent run for President, handing out commissions to news-people covering the campaign. I imagine there are any number of reporters from that day who have them as keepsakes.
    Yet truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. There actually was a Confederate (and  Northern) "Air Force" of sorts: balloonists. And this article tells the story of the last balloonist to fly in the Civil War!