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way to get a message through\n\nSuffer losses as the battle carries on\n\nLiberty Division standing strong\n\nFar from their land\n\nAs they made their stand\n\nA disregarded demand\n\nIt's surrender or die\n\nAnd the stakes are high\n\nThey live or they die\n\nThere's no time for goodbye\n\nWeapon in hand\n\nAs they made their stand\n\nStill disregarding demand\n\nThey would never comply\n\nThey would rather die\n\nBroke through the blockade\n\nThey were finally saved\n\nIn early October 1918, the US Army was making great strides in the Confederate State of Tennessee; General Pershing's and Chief of Staff Tasker Bliss's planned offensive near Hopkinsville, Kentucky in the summer had succeeded, with the help of mass barrel assaults, the use of plunging fire barrages, and the implementation of specialist Shock Troop battalions all leading to the disarray of the defending Confederate forces. Now, Pershing's own First Army, along with General Liggett's Third Army and General Mann's Fifth Army, were encircling Nashville and subjecting the city to punishing artillery barrage; elements of the First Army were pressing south to prevent the Confederates from trying to launch a counterattack to break the siege. The 77th Infantry Division was among those elements, crossing the Duck River between Hurricane Mills and Centerville between September 30 and October 2, when some nine companies were caught by a Confederate counterattack, spearheaded by the 50th, 61st, and and 62nd Divisions (comprising primarily of Cubans and Nonsaurians drafted into military service), near a bend in the river to the west of Bucksnort. Prevented from trying to cross the river, due to enemy artillery strategically placed to the south, the 77th command sought desperately to reach the 'Lost Battalion', successfully maintaining a bridgehead far to the west near Centerville.\n\nFor nearly a week, the Lost Battalion, under the command of Major Charles Whittlesey, held their position at Stooping Hickory Hollow, rejecting every demand sent by the Confederates to surrender. Pershing ordered the veteran 28th Division and the green 82nd Division to cross the river closer to the Battalion's position in an attempt to relive the 77th troops, while Confederates moved whatever division could be spared into the area to overrun the trapped Yankees. The initial relief effort resulted in failure, as the 28th and 82nd were swamped in their river fording by artillery barrages, while the Lost Battalion kept in contact by sending message birds and even one small message-flier north back across the river to reach Division commander Robert Alexander. Attempts were made in the meantime to supply the Battalion via airplane and cargodragon, but the majority of drops resulted in the supplies falling into enemy hands, the Confederate soldiers appreciating them due to their own supplies running thin (due to the dire strait of the CSA's war effort at that point in the war).\n\nThey were finally relieved on October 8th by a lone private, a Russian Jew, leading a 77th regiment, the 307th Infantry, on an arduous trek through the backwoods and creeks of the Tennessee wilderness. They established a route for friendly soldiers to relieve Whittlesey's pocket. With these reinforcements, they were finally able to push out of their pocket, forcing the Confederates from their positions, particularly the former sites they had placed their artillery. With the river crossing now safe from barrage, the rest of the 77th Division was able to cross the Duck and the remnants of the Lost Battalion was ordered back north. Of the 500 sars who crossed the river, only 194 returned to the 77th's camp unscathed, the rest having been killed, wounded, captured, or were missing. Major Whittlesey was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and received the Medal of Honor, along with Captain George McMurtry and Sergeant Nelson Holderman, who had served under Whittlesey's command. Former Major League Baseball player and division Captain Eddie Grant was killed by an exploding shell in one of the relief efforts to cross the river and reinforce the Battalion. Whittlesey was pallbearer at the Tomb of the War Dead at Silver Spring, when it was dedicated in 1921; that same year, he disappeared from a ship crossing the Atlantic in what was believed to be a suicide, undoubtedly as a result of the trauma of his experience in the Tennessee Fall forests during the war.\n\nA piece inspired by Sabaton's Lost Battalion song and reading about the actual Lost Battalion (well, the more famous one from WW1, not the one from WW2); I easily pictured something framed a bit like the cover of the Lost Battalion made-for-TV movie, which is actually supposed to be good. I went with what is supposed to be Whittlesey's face (in this world, anyway, as he's a Brachiosaur here) floating above some division soldiers getting ready for another fight against attacking Confederates. Boy, it sure took me a while to compile enough information for me to get this whole picture in (thank God for IMFDB, a number of screenshots they have there are quite useful as references), doing the usual hurdle of looking up random dinosaur species I felt like including here, and finally trying to figure out the background. The trees were probably the toughest aspect, as not only did I had to figure out how to draw them bent and twisted (like how would you expect shell-blasted trees to look), but also as to what type. I settled on beeches and maples, due to reading up on how beech and maple forests dominate quite a bit of Tennessee (and the photos I found using Google Maps in the area I was looking at definitely looked like Beech, so...).\n\nAlso, in hindsight, I probably should have added Division and rank insignia patches on the soldiers sleeves.... oh well, what can you do?", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Far from their land

As they made their stand

They stood strong

And the legend still lives on

1918: the war still rages on

A battalion is lost in the Argonne

Under fire, there is nothing they can do

There is no way to get a message through

Suffer losses as the battle carries on

Liberty Division standing strong

Far from their land

As they made their stand

A disregarded demand

It's surrender or die

And the stakes are high

They live or they die

There's no time for goodbye

Weapon in hand

As they made their stand

Still disregarding demand

They would never comply

They would rather die

Broke through the blockade

They were finally saved

In early October 1918, the US Army was making great strides in the Confederate State of Tennessee; General Pershing's and Chief of Staff Tasker Bliss's planned offensive near Hopkinsville, Kentucky in the summer had succeeded, with the help of mass barrel assaults, the use of plunging fire barrages, and the implementation of specialist Shock Troop battalions all leading to the disarray of the defending Confederate forces. Now, Pershing's own First Army, along with General Liggett's Third Army and General Mann's Fifth Army, were encircling Nashville and subjecting the city to punishing artillery barrage; elements of the First Army were pressing south to prevent the Confederates from trying to launch a counterattack to break the siege. The 77th Infantry Division was among those elements, crossing the Duck River between Hurricane Mills and Centerville between September 30 and October 2, when some nine companies were caught by a Confederate counterattack, spearheaded by the 50th, 61st, and and 62nd Divisions (comprising primarily of Cubans and Nonsaurians drafted into military service), near a bend in the river to the west of Bucksnort. Prevented from trying to cross the river, due to enemy artillery strategically placed to the south, the 77th command sought desperately to reach the 'Lost Battalion', successfully maintaining a bridgehead far to the west near Centerville.

For nearly a week, the Lost Battalion, under the command of Major Charles Whittlesey, held their position at Stooping Hickory Hollow, rejecting every demand sent by the Confederates to surrender. Pershing ordered the veteran 28th Division and the green 82nd Division to cross the river closer to the Battalion's position in an attempt to relive the 77th troops, while Confederates moved whatever division could be spared into the area to overrun the trapped Yankees. The initial relief effort resulted in failure, as the 28th and 82nd were swamped in their river fording by artillery barrages, while the Lost Battalion kept in contact by sending message birds and even one small message-flier north back across the river to reach Division commander Robert Alexander. Attempts were made in the meantime to supply the Battalion via airplane and cargodragon, but the majority of drops resulted in the supplies falling into enemy hands, the Confederate soldiers appreciating them due to their own supplies running thin (due to the dire strait of the CSA's war effort at that point in the war).

They were finally relieved on October 8th by a lone private, a Russian Jew, leading a 77th regiment, the 307th Infantry, on an arduous trek through the backwoods and creeks of the Tennessee wilderness. They established a route for friendly soldiers to relieve Whittlesey's pocket. With these reinforcements, they were finally able to push out of their pocket, forcing the Confederates from their positions, particularly the former sites they had placed their artillery. With the river crossing now safe from barrage, the rest of the 77th Division was able to cross the Duck and the remnants of the Lost Battalion was ordered back north. Of the 500 sars who crossed the river, only 194 returned to the 77th's camp unscathed, the rest having been killed, wounded, captured, or were missing. Major Whittlesey was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and received the Medal of Honor, along with Captain George McMurtry and Sergeant Nelson Holderman, who had served under Whittlesey's command. Former Major League Baseball player and division Captain Eddie Grant was killed by an exploding shell in one of the relief efforts to cross the river and reinforce the Battalion. Whittlesey was pallbearer at the Tomb of the War Dead at Silver Spring, when it was dedicated in 1921; that same year, he disappeared from a ship crossing the Atlantic in what was believed to be a suicide, undoubtedly as a result of the trauma of his experience in the Tennessee Fall forests during the war.

A piece inspired by Sabaton's Lost Battalion song and reading about the actual Lost Battalion (well, the more famous one from WW1, not the one from WW2); I easily pictured something framed a bit like the cover of the Lost Battalion made-for-TV movie, which is actually supposed to be good. I went with what is supposed to be Whittlesey's face (in this world, anyway, as he's a Brachiosaur here) floating above some division soldiers getting ready for another fight against attacking Confederates. Boy, it sure took me a while to compile enough information for me to get this whole picture in (thank God for IMFDB, a number of screenshots they have there are quite useful as references), doing the usual hurdle of looking up random dinosaur species I felt like including here, and finally trying to figure out the background. The trees were probably the toughest aspect, as not only did I had to figure out how to draw them bent and twisted (like how would you expect shell-blasted trees to look), but also as to what type. I settled on beeches and maples, due to reading up on how beech and maple forests dominate quite a bit of Tennessee (and the photos I found using Google Maps in the area I was looking at definitely looked like Beech, so...).

Also, in hindsight, I probably should have added Division and rank insignia patches on the soldiers sleeves.... oh well, what can you do?", "writing": "", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "", "pools_count": 0, "title": "Lost Battalion", "deleted": "f", "public": "t", "mimetype": "image/jpeg", "pagecount": "1", "rating_id": "0", "rating_name": "General", "ratings": [], "submission_type_id": "1", "type_name": "Picture/Pinup", "guest_block": "f", "friends_only": "f", "comments_count": "2", "views": "9" }