- Fort Steilacoom, Vol. XIV, No. 4, Winter 1997 (historicfortsteilacoom.org)
This is the story of Kitty Kautz, her union with Lt. August V. Kautz, their sons Nugent and Augustus, their lives together and eventually separation. This is also the story of a Kautz and Quiemuth family tradition of leadership that continues today.
- Tales of Old Fort Steilacoom (PDF) (historicfortsteilacoom.org)
Brevet Captain Delancy Floyd Jones was a bit of a dandy. And like most dandies was somewhat full of himself. He claimed an aristocratic background, was proud of his family’s lineage, and believed that small hands and feet were evidence of that heritage. Floyd Jones had small hands and feet. Also, perhaps his hyphenated last name contributed to his feelings of superiority. Floyd-Jones was a good soldier despite his aloofness. Lieutenant August Kautz describes him as a man of good habits and beyond reproach in his personal conduct, but he had one personal trait that distinguished him from all others at Fort Steilacoom. Floyd-Jones changed his shirt every day.
- Fort Steilacoom, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2018 (PDF) (historicfortsteilacoom.org)
August Valentine Kautz was born in Germany on January 5, 1828. Shortly thereafter the family, including close relatives, emigrated to America and settled on land previously purchased in Ohio. When he grew up, August Kautz had a long career in the United States Army. He graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1852, serving in many places, including Fort Steilacoom, and later as a General in the Civil War. He retired from active service on January 5, 1892, in Vancouver, Washington.
- [William Alloway] Slaughter had gone to Olympia for two or three days, and I was acting as quartermaster during his absence. The captain had discovered that some Post mules were in use by a farmer, and he came to me and ordered them to be brought in. I replied that I did not know Mr. Slaughter’s arrangements concerning the mules, and therefore did not like to interfere. He turned to me and said sharply: “You will do it, By G– if I order you to,” whereupon I answered in the same tone: “I won’t do it, by G–, unless you do.” He at once changed his tone and manner and said the he had meant it as an order, and naturally I answered that IF that were the case I would obey him.
- And when Lieut. Slaughter returned I reported the case to him, and he immediately cut off the supply of forage for Jones’ private horse, which he had been feeding out of the surplus forage in the quartermaster’s stables. Slaughter was justified, as Jones had taken the stand that public property should not be used for private purposes, but I think it generated an unpleasantness that lasted while I remained at the a post.7
And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
Matthew 18:9 NIV
- On April 14, 1868, Kautz noted in his journal that Charlotte was disturbed, sick and would not eat. She had vomiting, and had stomach pains off and on.
- On June 2 [of 1868], Charlotte called for her husband and made a beautiful prayer about 5 p.m. ending with “Oh Father, Father, come!” She lapsed into a coma and died the next day at 8 p.m
- Charlotte [Tod Kautz] was buried at Briar Brier Hill in Columbus Youngstown, Ohio, on June 9, 1868.
- August Kautz (Wikipedia)
August Valentine Kautz (January 5, 1828 – September 4, 1895) was a German-American officer. He served in the Rogue River Wars and Puget Sound War. He served as a general in the Union cavalry during the American Civil War. He was the author of several army manuals on duties and customs eventually adopted by the U.S. military.
