This is not urban legend as Cweese claims. There is one mistake in the article and that is that Pershing was born and rasied in Laclede, MS. He was born and raised in Laclede, MO, for Missouri. Laclede has a current population of about 400. I have been by his boyhood home several times.
Black Jack was a Missourian and therefore, not afraid to do what it took to get the right job done.