Congressional Medal of Honor winner Charles W. Whittlesey, leader of the "Lost Battalion" during World War One, disappeared at sea.
Whittlesey was a different character before World War One. He always had an aristocratic bearing, even though he was originally from Wisconsin and had worked as a logger in his youth. He was a Harvard law school graduate and practiced on Wall Street before and after the war. He never married and he had trouble adjusting to the pressure his famous status brought upon him and the constant contacts with former members of his command.
Leyendecker illustrated a baby for the Saturday Evening post as a poultry executioner.
Rockwell, on the other hand, did a conventional Thanksgiving scene for The Literary Digest.
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