The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-01-09

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all the incorrigibles and ineligibles
of "a" third.
Later he left Winnsboro and with
money saved from his slender salary
as a clerk he entered preparatory
school near West Point. At Highland
Falls. There his instructor was Lieut.
Charles Braden who has only recent
ly written Mr.. ii. A. Gaillard that Col
Gaillard was in the first class he
taught.
Lieut. Braden was of the 7th cal
vary having been stationed in Cuba
i'm 1876. a few months after leaving
he i'm the Rosebud Custer-massacre
campaign against the Sioux Indians,
was almost literally shot to pieces,
and was carried for hundreds OF
miles on pony trailer before his
wounds could be properly dressed.
He was retired and began teaching.
ENTERS WEST POINT.
Gaillard successfully passing the en-
trance examination at West Point en-
tered as a cadet i'm September 1880.
He was handicapped by lack of
preparation and used often to say
how easy ii seemed for those or his
classmates, college graduates or
carefully prepared in high schools.
But i'm spite of all Of this he graduated
No 3 in class of 81, conceded by
every one to have been the most bril-
liant class ever graduated from the
Point. He was cadet Quartermaster,
was known by all as David" for
being tall and slender and rooming
with w. l.. Silbert OF Alabama, who
was n grant and appropriately called
! Goliath. No better nickname than
what happened to be his own could be
found.
David and Goliath" later met at
! Panama on the commission.
After graduation Gaillard was as
signed to the corps OF engineers the
training corps OF the army and was
! sent to Willetts Point l.. l., to at
tend the Engineer School OF Applica-
tion. This school was under Gen
Henry i. Abbott, who has since been
called the Father OF the Panama
Canal" He was n member OF the
New Company" (French1 and OF the
First American commission, has writ
ten n classic yearly revised by him,
though s years old on the Problems
of the Panama Canal" He always
! speaks affectionately OF "his boys" as
he terms the engineers in charge ther
Gothals Hodges Gaillard and Sibert
After two years at Willetts Point
Gaillard was assinged TO duty as as
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army career.
While i'm Florida stationed at st
Aurustiuc he rcpairCd old Fort Ma
rion had charge of the suvcy OF st
Augustiuc harbor where he bagn his
Interesting series of cXpCrimcnts with
sen waves completing them Is years
later hut MT the first OppOrtuuitv for
again observing them. These expert
mcnts are embodied in a book called
"WaVe Action and its Relation to En-
gincering Structures" which is the
authority on the subject and received
recognition from engineers all over
the world.
In Novor,bor 1Soo no only - first
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