During the Civil War, a group of artillery was called a battery. I read about this while looking in my sister's history book. She was in 5th grade, I was in 1st. Well, I belived that you could blow someone up if you threw a battery at someone hard enough.
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I threw up too hard my brain would explode.— Tammy
- My cousin used to think that a group of nine singers was called a "niner".Anon
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her— ---pepsi---
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- I was told in first grade that if you fart burp and sneeze at the same time you would blow up— bob doodle