My father's family; don't know how many greats grandfather.





Abraham Trostle Farm, south of Gettysburg near the wheat field. The family left abruptly on July 2 as the battle swept toward them, and Gen. Sickles's staff, who had set up his headquarters in the yard, helped themselves to a meal that had been left on the dining room table. Trostle lost almost everything he owned during the battle

1863 - Bigelow's Stand - Battle for the Trostle Farm

"When we reached the angle of the stone wall at Trostle's house, a swell of ground, 50 yards on our right front, covered us from Barksdale's approaching lines and we began to limber up, hoping to (get) out and back to our lines before they closed in on us...but, McGilvery again rode up (and) told me...I must hold my position at all hazards." - Captain John Bigelow, 9th Massachusetts Light Artille