An area author’s book was recently donated to the GAR Museum on the second floor of the Marketplace at Steamtown. Regina Youshock, right, accompanied by Anne Sample, center, to whom the book is dedicated, donates ‘The Trostle Tree’ by her late brother, Anthony Bagnick, a historian, former Wayne County teacher and Civil War buff, to the Grand Army of the Republic Museum in the Marketplace at Steamtown Mall. Receiving the book is Robert Baker, left, president of the GAR Memorial Association. Florent Barry, second from left, was a friend of Bagnick and aided in the book donation. Bagnick wrote his novel from the perspective of a ‘witness tree’ on the Trostle Farm in Gettysburg. The tree still grows on the farm and was growing and alive during the battle. On July 2, 1863, Gen. Dan Sickles made his headquarters under the tree as he directed his forces against the Confederates. It was later in that battle that a wounded Sickles had his injured leg amputated.
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An area author’s book was recently donated to the GAR Museum on the second floor of the Marketplace at Steamtown. Regina Youshock, right, accompanied by Anne Sample, center, to whom the book is dedicated, donates ‘The Trostle Tree’ by her late brother, Anthony Bagnick, a historian, former Wayne County teacher and Civil War buff, to the Grand Army of the Republic Museum in the Marketplace at Steamtown Mall. Receiving the book is Robert Baker, left, president of the GAR Memorial Association. Florent Barry, second from left, was a friend of Bagnick and aided in the book donation. Bagnick wrote his novel from the perspective of a ‘witness tree’ on the Trostle Farm in Gettysburg. The tree still grows on the farm and was growing and alive during the battle. On July 2, 1863, Gen. Dan Sickles made his headquarters under the tree as he directed his forces against the Confederates. It was later in that battle that a wounded Sickles had his injured leg amputated.
