On February 26, 1864, 17-year-old John Lauffer joined Company F, 11th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, under the command of Gen. Richard Coulter. According to Private Lauffer's muster papers from the National Archives, he was a farmer from Westmoreland County, 5'7", with hazel eyes, brown hair, and dark complexion. The papers go on to state that he was "taken prisoner by the enemy on August 19, 1864 at Weldon Railroad," near Petersburg Virginia, and spent about nine months as a POW in several Southern prison camps. He was released from the notorious Andersonville Prison on May 2, 1865, and was mustered out of the service in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 8, 1865.
Per his Death Certificate, died from being thrown from a wagon.
Family Members
Parents
Daniel Lauffer
1801–1887
Margaret Dible Lauffer
1808–1846
Spouse
Mary Agnes Rumbaugh Lauffer
1848–1924 (m. 1866)
Siblings
Jacob Dible Lauffer
1828–1907
Julia A Lauffer Ashbaugh
1837–1924
Daniel Milton Lauffer
1840–1907
Margaret Jane Lauffer Hill
1842–1936
Children
James Rumbaugh Lauffer
1867–1951
Daniel Morris Lauffer
1869–1940
Elizabeth Louise Lauffer Beighley
1872–1910
Joseph Sylvester Lauffer
1875–1952
Samuel Newton Lauffer
1878–1966
Sarah Caroline Lauffer Morrison
1880–1957
John Clarence Lauffer
1886–1960
George Wallace Lauffer
1894–1968
