As we’ve all deduced, this pic is of the Osage orange tree in the Trostle farm yard.
There are a few of these trees around the battlefield—the Trostle yard, across the road in the Trostle thicket next to Plum Run, and a line of old trees to the left for the Hancock wounding marker that are a part of the fence line, which, based on all the great info folks here gave about them, was their original purpose. However, I haven’t read in any soldier accounts of the battle about their seeing and having to get by Osage orange bushes/trees—and considering the trees have WICKED thorns, I would think soldiers would’ve mentioned that.
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Pam