Excerpt from History of Battery B: One Hundred Third Field Artillery, Twenty-Sixth Division, With Pictorial Supplement; April, 1917 to April, 1919
In preparing this book the writers have attempted, at least, to meet what they considered the two chief requirements of such a book.
First, we have tried to compile an accurate record of the Battery from the time it was formed until the time it was mustered out of the Federal Service. We have neither attempted to glorify nor make light of the hardships and achievements of the Battery. It is as it happened - nothing more and nothing less.
In the second place by stories of what happened "Over There," by little incidents of our daily life, by a little word of each man in the Battery, we have tried to give the book a personal touch for everyone.
The experiences we endured, the friendships we formed while in that best of all outfits, were too great for us ever to forget, but often even such great things as these are helped by a little reminder. If then in the days to come this book should serve as that reminder the writers will feel that their work, in spite of its imperfections and there are many, will not have been in vain.
The Committee wishes to acknowledge its thanks to the officers of the Battery for their help in starting the book, especially to Captain Hanley, whose aid, in furnishing a place in which to work and other ways, has made the book possible; and to the original book committee, especially F. C. Perkins, for supplying the material.
The Committee which finally composed the book was made up of John W. Russell, Editor-in-Chief; R. E. Jordan, Editor; H. W. McCarthy, J. G. Emmons, W. A. Watson, P. C. Wilkinson, F. Sisson, H. L. Emidy.
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