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NO. 2 (MARCH-APRIL)
 
 
 
 Harris and Ewing 
 MAJOR GENERAL HARRY G. BISHOP Chief of Field Artillery
 
THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL
VOL. XX
 
MARCH-APRIL, 1930
 
NO. 2
 
MAJOR GENERAL HARRY G. BISHOP
 
UR third Chief of Field Artillery, Major General Harry G. Bishop, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 22, 1874, and appointed to the Military Academy from Indiana. Upon graduation in 1897 he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Infantry. Less than a year later he was transferred to the 6th Artillery and served at Fort McHenry, Maryland, Washington, D. C., and Fort Caswell, North Carolina. In April of 1899 he sailed for the Philippines, and in the same year he was promoted First Lieutenant, serving with the 13th Battery at Iloilo and later commanding the detachment at Cebu.
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General Bishop was made Captain in 1901, after which he served at Fort Adams, Fort Totten, Fort Stevens and Fort Sam Houston. In 1911 he graduated from the School of the Line at Fort Leavenworth and the next year he graduated from the Army Staff College. From 1912 to 1916 he served as Major, mostly at Fort Sill with the old Fifth, during the days when the School of Fire was started. Upon being promoted Lieutenant Colonel in 1916 he was ordered to the 8th Field Artillery at Fort Bliss, and in November of that year he went to the Signal Corps Aviation School at San Diego, nearly losing his life as the result of a forced landing in a remote desert region of Mexico. In 1917 he received his colonelcy, and on June 26, 1918, became Brigadier General, National Army, with command of the 159th Field Artillery Brigade at Camp Taylor. In August 1918, he went to France and retained his Brigade until transferred to the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade which he commanded until his return to the United States in 1919. Upon reverting to his regular rank of Colonel he was assigned to the Army War College as instructor, and in September 1921 he  became Chief of the Training and Instruction Branch, War Department General Staff, later going to the Fourth Corps Area as Chief of Staff. In August 1922 he again sailed for the
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