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the firing of a battery. They taught us logarithm, square root,
trigonometry, navigation and logistics but never did tell us that all they
wanted to do was to make the projectile hit the target. Panford told us
that and most of us were descendants of good old squirrel rifle shots and
from then on we did just that - made the shell hit the target. Afterward,
when they made me a firing instructor in France I told the boys right off
what we were trying to do and explained at some length that all the
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trimmings were for was to make the first shot more accurate - after that it was
just like any other shooting.
We made some excellent artillery men out of men who'd never seen an
artillery weapon until the war began. (I'm off again)
When the two batteries in Independence and Kansas City were expanded into
a regiment there was a young Sergeant in Battery B by the name of James M.
Pendergast. His father was M. J. Pendergast, an older brother of Thos. J.
This young man was made a Second Lieutenant when the Regiment was formed but,
along with three other young men, he never did get his National Guard or his
Federal Commission. These four young men were afterwards sent tothe 3rd
Officers Training Camp at Ft. Sill and Jim Pendergast was one of the four
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