Harry Gore Bishop

Harry Gore Bishop (November 22, 1874 – August 31, 1934) was a United States Army artillery general and author. He is most noted for his service as a Chief of Field Artillery branch of the Army between years 1930–1934.

Early life and education Bishop was born November 22, 1874, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bishop attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating with the class of 1897.

Career In 1916, during the Mexican Revolution, Bishop served on the U.S.-Mexico border. In 1917, attempting to fly as a passenger in an airplane from San Diego, California to Calexico, California, he was forced to land in Mexico and was lost for nine days before being recovered by a search party.

On the entry of the United States into World War I, Bishop was promoted to brigadier general. Serving in France, he commanded the 159th Field Artillery Brigade and later the 3rd Artillery Brigade. He received the Army Distinguished Service Medal He served until March 1934 and was succeeded by Upton Birnie Jr.

Family Bishop's wife was Ella Van Horn Foulois, who had earlier divorced Maj. Gen. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois, Chief of the Army Air Corps.

Writings As a young man, Bishop wrote several short stories, some of which would now be considered science fiction. These were: On the Martian Way, November 1907 in The Broadway Magazine. This story is notable for being one of the earliest to feature an imagined future society in which space travel is commonplace. It was reprinted in Amazing Stories (February, 1927) and in Star Magazine (July, 1931). Congealing the Ice Trust, December 1907 in The New Broadway Magazine Mogul, January 1912 in Everybody's Magazine.

Later works were purely military in character: Elements of Modern Field Artillery – U.S. Service (1914, 2nd ed. 1917) Operation Orders, Field Artillery: A Study in the Technique of Battle Orders (1916) Field Artillery: The King of Battles (1935)