RECORD OF SERVICE: Enlisted as a private 02 Jun 1861 at Luray in Company K ("Page Volunteers"), 10th Virginia Infantry. Wounded 09 Aug 1862, Battle of Cedar Run/Mountain. Appointed 2nd corporal 11 Aug 1862. Returned to ranks Jan 1863. POW 12 May 1864, Spotsylvania C.H. Sent to Pt. Lookout, Md. 18 May 1864; Elmira, N.Y. 02 Aug 1864. Released under Oath of Allegiance 19 Jun 1865.
OBITUARY from Confederate Veteran Magazine 1923:
While absent from home, i was inexpressibly shocked to learn of the sudden death on August 3, 1923, of my beloved comrade and brother, Dr. T.H. Lauck, Company K, 10th Virginia Infantry, which leaves me as the last survivor of four who were messmates together. Although since the war living in States far distant from each other, we had kept up the fellow comradeship that had bound us together. I shall miss him and mourn his departure.
As his commander, I can pay no higher tribute to his memory through the years of service than to testify that he was a soldier with an unblemished record as to fidelity to duty and loyalty to his flag and country, even suffering imprisonment for months after the surrender of General Lee, refusing to take the oath of allegiance until advised by his parents of useless resistence any longer.
He was brave without any bravado, cool and calm in action, not stoical, but, conscious of impending danger, faced it with intrepid courage. In the battle of Cedar Mountain he was wounded, but upon his recovery returned promptly to his duties and fought through all the principal battles of the Army of Northern Virginia
He was universally loved by his comrades for his genial nature and ties of comradeship. he was endowed with a bright mind, which manifested itself in deep thought, quick at repartee, and a ready writer. His recollections as to minute details of war incidents were remarkable, and he could give as good account of his own personal experience in battle as any man in the company.
In 1861, when the war was imminent between the States, and the proclamation of President Lincoln calling for 75,000 troops to coerce South Carolina into the Union was flashed over the wires, Dr. Lauck, then but seventeed years of age and not subject to the draft, was among the first to respond to the call to repel the invaders by volunteering in the first company from Page County, Va., then being enlisted for service.
He had been reared in tenderness by his parents and had not experienced any hardships to inure him to what was to confront him, but he, with many others of his comrades, surprised those of more hardly lives by his endurance in military drill, discipline, and fatiguing marches.
At the close of the war, he chose the profession of medicine and graduated from the University of Virginia, and after returning home, began practicing at Manassas, Va., but after a few years he emigrated to Texas and located in Leander, where he practiced for a period of many years until physical infirmities compelled him to retire.
At the time of his deat5hhe was visiting his native hime in Page County, Va., and was contemplating an early return to Texas when suddenly striken down and died in a few days.
He was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, a son of the Rev. William C. Lauck, an eminent divine of that denomination in Virginia. May he rest in peace.
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