Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Laufman, Rees. D. July 25, 1840 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Clay Township
p. 389

Rev. Rees D. Laufman, son of John and Mary Laufman, was born in Perry County, 
Ohio, July 25, 1840; received a fair common-school education. Sept. 15, 1861, 
he enlisted in Company G, Thirty-second Ohio Infantry, participating in Green 
Briar, Allegheny Mountain and Harper's Ferry, where the command was 
surrendered as prisoners of war by General Miles, paroled and, sent to Chicago 
via Baltimore, Md. They were exchanged in the spring of 1863 and placed in the 
Seventeenth Army Corps. They were in the following battles in the investing of 
Vicksburg, viz.: Port Gibson, Thompson Hills, Jackson, Champion Hills, and the 
long siege of Vicksburg. He was wounded in the memorable charge at Vicksburg, 
and before fully recovering from the effect of the wound was prostrated with 
the congestive fever and sent to Lawson Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. After the 
fever had been subdued sufficient for his removal, he served as medical nurse 
until the close of the hospital, being in the hospital the three winter 
months, when he rejoined his regiment at Vicksburg, and with them participated 
in the second battle of Champion Hills, Big Shanty, Kennesaw Mountain siege 
and capture of Atlanta and the battle of Jonesboro, Ga.; was discharged soon 
after by reason of expiration of term of service. He came to Wayne County, 
Ind., in the spring of 1865, and was married Feb. 28, 1866, to Jane D., 
daughter of Jonathan and Mary Ann Baldwin. They have had four children---Wm. 
L., born Jan. 5, 1867; Mary A., born Dec. 8, 1870; Albert W., born April 9, 
1876, and Laura B., born Oct. 13, 1878. Mr. Laufman owns and farms 150 acres 
of well cultivated land one mile northeast of Washington. He has taught six 
terms of school, and has been a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church 
since 1861. 

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