The son of Henry & Jane (Pitzer) Trostle, the 1860 census for Paradise Township, York County, Pennsylvania, lists a George Trostle living with George & Sarah Trostle, but it is not certain this is he. He married Mary Jane Plank October 30, 1860, and fathered Oscar Mundorff (b. @1860), Harry McClellan (b. 02/10/61), Ida May (b. 07/06/64 - married Isaac Daniel Mickley), Minnie Hester (b. 09/05/72 - married William Fulton Carbaugh), Paul Addison (b. 05/12/79), and Ralph (b. 10/29/82, d. 03/10/83. By the time the Confederate army arrived in mid-1863, he was living with his family along the Emmitsburg Road in Adams County.
Captured by Confederate forces on June 30, 1863, as he was trying to return to his home, he was taken with the Southern army when it left Gettysburg and eventually incarcerated at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, where he performed nursing duties. He was later transferred across town to Castle Thunder, then reportedly shipped to the stockade at Salisbury, North Carolina (unconfirmed). Allegedly, he spent a total of twenty-two months in captivity, although this researcher has yet to find verification of that. No Adams County newspaper has been located in any online newspaper archive that mentions his incarceration from the time of his capture through the end of 1900. It is only later that the story is found there, although his name is present on an 1865 list of captives that Federal officials were trying to have released.
His obituaries that claim he was a Civil War veteran, which is untrue as he never served in the military. Why the Confederate army saw fit to hold a civilian - and he reportedly was one of six such Gettysburg area civilians taken - for nearly two years who had no apparent political or military authority remains an unanswered question.
He died at the reported age of 75-9-14 from "chronic valvular disease of heart with hypertrophy" leading to "dropsy."
Captured by Confederate forces on June 30, 1863, as he was trying to return to his home, he was taken with the Southern army when it left Gettysburg and eventually incarcerated at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, where he performed nursing duties. He was later transferred across town to Castle Thunder, then reportedly shipped to the stockade at Salisbury, North Carolina (unconfirmed). Allegedly, he spent a total of twenty-two months in captivity, although this researcher has yet to find verification of that. No Adams County newspaper has been located in any online newspaper archive that mentions his incarceration from the time of his capture through the end of 1900. It is only later that the story is found there, although his name is present on an 1865 list of captives that Federal officials were trying to have released.
His obituaries that claim he was a Civil War veteran, which is untrue as he never served in the military. Why the Confederate army saw fit to hold a civilian - and he reportedly was one of six such Gettysburg area civilians taken - for nearly two years who had no apparent political or military authority remains an unanswered question.
He died at the reported age of 75-9-14 from "chronic valvular disease of heart with hypertrophy" leading to "dropsy."
The son of Henry & Jane (Pitzer) Trostle, the 1860 census for Paradise Township, York County, Pennsylvania, lists a George Trostle living with George & Sarah Trostle, but it is not certain this is he. He married Mary Jane Plank October 30, 1860, and fathered Oscar Mundorff (b. @1860), Harry McClellan (b. 02/10/61), Ida May (b. 07/06/64 - married Isaac Daniel Mickley), Minnie Hester (b. 09/05/72 - married William Fulton Carbaugh), Paul Addison (b. 05/12/79), and Ralph (b. 10/29/82, d. 03/10/83. By the time the Confederate army arrived in mid-1863, he was living with his family along the Emmitsburg Road in Adams County.
Captured by Confederate forces on June 30, 1863, as he was trying to return to his home, he was taken with the Southern army when it left Gettysburg and eventually incarcerated at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, where he performed nursing duties. He was later transferred across town to Castle Thunder, then reportedly shipped to the stockade at Salisbury, North Carolina (unconfirmed). Allegedly, he spent a total of twenty-two months in captivity, although this researcher has yet to find verification of that. No Adams County newspaper has been located in any online newspaper archive that mentions his incarceration from the time of his capture through the end of 1900. It is only later that the story is found there, although his name is present on an 1865 list of captives that Federal officials were trying to have released.
His obituaries that claim he was a Civil War veteran, which is untrue as he never served in the military. Why the Confederate army saw fit to hold a civilian - and he reportedly was one of six such Gettysburg area civilians taken - for nearly two years who had no apparent political or military authority remains an unanswered question.
He died at the reported age of 75-9-14 from "chronic valvular disease of heart with hypertrophy" leading to "dropsy."
Captured by Confederate forces on June 30, 1863, as he was trying to return to his home, he was taken with the Southern army when it left Gettysburg and eventually incarcerated at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, where he performed nursing duties. He was later transferred across town to Castle Thunder, then reportedly shipped to the stockade at Salisbury, North Carolina (unconfirmed). Allegedly, he spent a total of twenty-two months in captivity, although this researcher has yet to find verification of that. No Adams County newspaper has been located in any online newspaper archive that mentions his incarceration from the time of his capture through the end of 1900. It is only later that the story is found there, although his name is present on an 1865 list of captives that Federal officials were trying to have released.
His obituaries that claim he was a Civil War veteran, which is untrue as he never served in the military. Why the Confederate army saw fit to hold a civilian - and he reportedly was one of six such Gettysburg area civilians taken - for nearly two years who had no apparent political or military authority remains an unanswered question.
He died at the reported age of 75-9-14 from "chronic valvular disease of heart with hypertrophy" leading to "dropsy."
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