General August Valentine Kautz A mint CDV of Kautz Signed at the front bottom and back marked Hoag& Quick’s, Cincinnati, Ohio. Graduating from West Point in 1852, he served in the Pacific Northwest, engaging in the Rogue River and Puget Sound Wars, where he was wounded twice. He advocated for Chief Leschi, opposing his execution. During the Civil War, Kautz joined the 6th U.S. Cavalry as a captain, serving in the Peninsula Campaign. Transferred to the Western Theater in 1862, he led the 2nd Ohio Cavalry against Morgan’s Raid and at Knoxville. Promoted to brigadier general in 1864, he commanded cavalry in the Army of the James, participating in the Wilson-Kautz Raid and Petersburg Campaign. In 1865, he led colored troops into Richmond and served on the Lincoln assassination trial board. Post-war, he held frontier commands, wrote influential army manuals, and retired as a brigadier general in 1892, dying in Seattle in 1895.