Lewis and Mary at the Battle of Gettysburg: Lewis Und Mary Bei Der Schlacht Von Gettysburg Eine Wahre Geschichte

By Frederick Easton Walter

Lewis B. Walter and Mary Trostle were children growing up near the quiet farming town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On July 13, 1863, their lives and the history of the United States of America was forever changed. From a prosperous farming town, to a battlefield, to President Lincolns address in November 1863, to a National Military Park, the name Gettysburg echoes through time.
Lewis and Marys story is another rich fiber in the tapestry of the Gettysburg story. How they survived, how their family rebuilt the Trostle Farm, and how the Trostle Farm became a piece of the Military Park is fascinating American history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 27, 2009
• ISBN: 9781469123103

Frederick Easton Walter

Frederick Easton Walter was born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and lived at Eighteen East Locust Street for five years with his parents and his great-grandfather, Lewis B. Walter (Granpa Walter). This is where Granpa Walter retold the stories about the great battle at Gettysburg. When Lewis Walter died on March 31, 1950, the Walter Family (Roy Jr., Mary Jane, Fred, and Scott) soon moved to Arizona and then to El Segundo, California, and lived there until 1968. They moved back to the Village of La Anna, Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains where they presently reside.

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Contents

Author To Reader

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Lee’s General Orders No. 75

Camp Near Mechanicsville, Va

Forward

Mary

Military

Epilogue

Research For Young History Students

References

My Gettysburg Journal

AUTHOR TO READER

In the first edition of Lewis and Mary at the Battle of Gettysburg—A True Story, I told the story of Lewis B. and Mary Trostle-Walter, the Trostle family, and how they survived the battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 and the battle’s aftermath. And also how the Trostle Farm became part of the National Military Park in January 1899.

The next edition begins in the 1700’s in Southern Germany. It tells the story of Abraham and Anna Catherine Trostle and their six children and how the family sailed to the colony of Pennsylvania in 1754.

I want to honor and acknowledge the courage and bravery of the Trostle family and all the German families who sailed to Pennsylvania in the 1700’s and 1800’s to make a new home and create a new country—The United States of America.

All over Pennsylvania, the German presence is still felt. From the smallest village to the farms and industry of the state. A lot of visitors to Pennsylvania say it reminds them of Germany, with rolling mountains and valleys filled with streams and rivers.

I also wanted Mary’s story to be translated into German to honor the language the Trostles spoke and is still spoken in parts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Dutch are really the Pennsylvania Deutsch.

I want to thank Gisele and Hubert Skott of Florence, Oregon and Dennise Areslan of Orlando, Florida for beginning my task of translating the English to German.

I especially want to thank Dr. Aneka Meier of the Foreign Languages Department at East Stroudsburg University, located in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. This edition of Lewis and Mary would not have happened without her skill and insight into the German language and her ability to translate English to German.

Frederick Easton Walter 2009

In the southern part of Germany is the small town of Heutingsheim, located near Stuttgart. In the early 1750’s along came agents for William Penn looking for folks who would sail to Philadelphia and settle and farm in the counties north and west of Philadelphia. His colony of Pennsylvania (Penns Woods) needed brave men and women and brave boys and girls to settle the frontier. Abraham Trostle (1714) was married to Anna Catherine Bommer and they had six children. Abraham had health problems (he liked German beer too much) that he thought would be addressed by moving to a new land.

In April 1754, Abraham and Catherine and all six children traveled on the Neckar River and then the Rhein River on a river boat. They came to the Atlantic Ocean at Rotterdam, Holland. The trip took four to six weeks. From Rotterdam, Abraham and family boarded the sailing ship, Peggy, and departed for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ship Peggy stopped at Gosport, England near Portsmouth and then continued for many, many weeks (possibly eight) sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean, and then up the Delaware River to the Port of Philadelphia. The ship Peggy arrived in Philadelphia on October 16, 1754. The whole journey took about six months. The records in Pennsylvania indicate only Abraham Trostle (1714), young Abraham (1740), and brother George (1744) survived the journey. George died at the age of 26 when he fell from a ship while working on the docks in Philadelphia. Young Abraham (1740) married Susanna Bentz and in the Spring of 1785 bought property in Paradise Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Abraham and Susanna