Daniel K. Laforce was born around 1839 in Kentucky to Cornelius and Isabella Laforce. His father was a farmer who owned $400 of personal property by 1850. The family lived in Pendleton County, Kentucky, until the 1850s, when they moved to Indiana. By the early 1860s, Laforce was living in Jasper County, Indiana. He enlisted in the Union army on June 14, 1861, and he mustered in as a private in Company H of the 15^th Indiana Infantry later that day. The regiment took part in the Battle of Shiloh, the Siege of Corinth, the Battle of Perryville, the Battle of Stones River, the Battle of Chickamauga, the Siege of Chattanooga, and the Battle of Missionary Ridge. He was wounded at Missionary Ridge on November 25, and he died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 27, 1863.

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