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Born in Germany in 1828, future Union general August Valentine Kautz came to America as an infant. He was privileged to obtain schooling and, after service in the war with Mexico, attended West Point.
Relying heavily on detailed journals kept by Kautz for 43 years, this biography covers his early experiences and his time in the turbulent Pacific Northwest, where he was involved in Indian affairs and the Rogue River War. As with so many American military men of the time, however, the defining event in his career was the Civil War.
Originally assigned to the Western Theater, where he played a role in the capture of Morgan's Raiders, Kautz's service included participation in the First Battle of Deep Bottom, the Wilson-Kautz Raid, and the Petersburg assault aimed at capturing Richmond. Kautz has often been misrepresented in historical mentions and this biography seeks to set the record straight. Period photographs and a number of maps are included.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
PART I: THE MAKING OF A SOLDIER
1. An Immigrant Family
2. Boyhood in Ohio
3. Mexico
4. The Academy
PART II: THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
5. The Fourth U.S. Infantry
6. Fort Orford
7. Fort Steilacoom
8. Semiahmoo Bay
9. Tacobet
10. Tenas Puss
11. To Europe and Back
12. By Steamer to the Mullan Road
13. Fort Chehalis
PART III: THE CIVIL
14. The Sixth U.S. Cavalry
15. The Peninsula
16. The Second Ohio Cavalry; Fort Scott, Camp Chase
17. Operating in Kentucky
18. Chasing Morgan
19. East Tennessee
20. The Cavalry Bureau
21. The Cavalry Division, Army of the James
22. Raiding Railroads in Virginia
23. The First Petersburg Assault
24. The Second Petersburg Assault
25. The Wilson-Kautz Raid
26. First Deep Bottom and the Beefsteak Raid
27. Chaffin's Farm and Johnson's Farm
28. Through the Long Winter
29. The Company Clerk and Customs of Service
30. The Fall of Richmond
PART IV: THE POSTWAR YEARS
31. The Trial of the Lincoln Conspirators
32. Charlotte Tod
33. Reconstruction
34. From Old Mexico to New Mexico
35. Fort Stanton
36. Newport Barracks
37. Fannie Markbreit
38. From Fort Garland to Fort Whipple
39. The Department of Arizona
40. A Damper on the Party
41. The Most Important Court-Martial Since the War
42. Benicia Barracks
43. Angel Island
44. Fort Lowell
45. Fort Niobrara
46. Washington and New York
47. Vancouver Barracks
48. Retirement
Afterword
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index



