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BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES R. WOODS.

HARLES R. WOODS is a native of Licking County, Ohio, and a graduate of West Point. On his completion of the regular course in that institution in July, 1852, he was appointed brevet Second-Lieutenant in the First Regiment Infantry.

At the opening of the rebellion he was assigned to duty as Quartermaster on General Patterson's staff. He was afterward assigned to General Banks's staff, and he continued to serve as Quartermaster until August, 1861, when he was assigned to the recruiting service at St. Louis. He remained there until the 3d of October, when he obtained a leave of absence with permission to raise a three years' regiment in Ohio.

On the 7th of October Governor Dennison appointed him Colonel of the Seventy-Sixth Infantry. The Forty-Fourth had then its complement of men, and was lying in camp at Springfield. The Governor ordered Colonel Woods to take that regiment to the field. Accordingly he left Springfield October 14th, in command of the Forty-Fourth, and on the 18th he reached Camp Piatt in the Kanawha Valley. He was relieved of the Forty-Fourth by Colonel Gilbert, and was ordered by General Rosecrans to take command of the Tenth Ohio Infantry, then without a field officer present. Under General Benham he participated in a chase after General Floyd, and on the 20th of November he returned to Newark to complete the organization of the Seventy-Sixth.

On the 9th of February, 1862, he proceeded with his regiment, by way of Cincinnati, Paducah, and Smithland to Fort Donelson. He landed on the 14th, and was assigned to Colonel Thayer's brigade of General Lew. Wallace's divis. ion. Colonel Woods was actively engaged on the 15th, the regiment losing sixteen men killed and wounded. On the 21st Colonel Wood was assigned to the command of a brigade consisting of the Fifty-Sixth, the Seventy-Sixth, and the Seventy-Eighth Ohio Regiments; the Twentieth Ohio was subsequently added to the brigade. On the 1st of March the brigade moved across the country to Metal Landing, on the Tennessee, and thence up the river to Crump's Landing. During the battle of Pittsburg Landing Colonel Whittlesey of the Twentieth Ohio, by virtue of seniority, commanded the brigade, and Colonel Woods was with this regiment. The brigade did not reach the field until the evening of the 6th of April, but on the morning of the 7th it went into action, and, though not closely engaged, it was exposed to a galling fire for nine hours. On the 25th of April Colonel Woods again assumed command of the brigade, and participated in the advance on Corinth. About the 1st of June he moved to Memphis; and on the 24th of July he left Memphis for Helena, to join the Army of the South-West.

On the 16th of August he moved down the Mississippi, in command of the Second Brigade of Osterhaus's division. At Milliken's Bend the gunboats captured a Rebel steamer loaded with arms and ammunition, and information was received that a Rebel regiment was encamped on shore. Colonel Woods landed his command, but the enemy fled. Pursuit was made, and fifty prisoners and one hundred and fifty guns were captured; in addition the telegraph line was destroyed, and a depot, containing a large amount of sugar and bacon, was burned. In October Colonel Woods was engaged in an expedition from Helena to Pilot Knob, and in December he moved with Sherman's forces against Vicksburg. He was present at the battle of Chickasaw Bayou, but was not actively engaged. In the engagement at Arkansas Post Colonel Woods's regiment suffered severely, losing sixty men in less than forty seconds. For gallant conduct in this action he was recommended by General Sherman for promotion to the rank of Brigadier-General.

On the 15th of January, 1863, Colonel Woods embarked his command on transports, and on the 23d arrived at Young's Point opposite Vicksburg. Here he remained until the 2d of April, when he moved up the river, and on the 2d of May commenced the march across the country to Grand Gulf. He was engaged in all the battles in the rear of Vicksburg, and from the time the brigade left Grand Gulf until the 23d of May it lost two hundred men, one hundred and eighty-five of whom were killed or wounded on the 22d of May. During the siege the brigade was posted on the extreme right of General Grant's army, near the river above Vicksburg. Colonel Woods laid out the trenches in his part of the line himself, having no engineer officer under his command.

On the 5th of July the Colonel moved his command toward Jackson, on the Bridgeport Road, by way of Bolton and Clinton. Upon reaching Jackson he took position in the second line of the Fifteenth Army Corps, and there remained for some days, sustaining slight loss. From Jackson the brigade made several expeditions; to Canton, to Messenger's Plantation, and again to Canton, finally going into camp for the summer at Big Black Bridge.

On the 22d of August Colonel Woods received his appointment as BrigadierGeneral, and his brigade was denominated the First Brigade, First Division, Fifteenth Army Corps. On the 23d of September the corps moved for Chattanooga, General Woods accompanying it. Upon reaching Chickasaw on the Tennessee River, the General assumed command of the division. Leaving this point the division, with a large ammunition and supply-train, averaged eighteen miles a day, and arrived at Brown's Ferry on the 23d of November. The pontoon bridge being broken down, the division reported to General Hooker, and was placed in his column.

General Woods commanded his brigade in the battle of Lookout Mountain, and its conduct was unexceptionable. It moved forward to the attack with an irresistible energy, and held every inch of ground with a bravery which foiled the enemy in all its attempts to dislodge it. It was also engaged at Mission Ridge, making captures of men, arms, and ammunition. The brigade held the advance in General Hooker's movement on Ringgold, and was hotly engaged

with the enemy posted in one of the mountain gaps. Some of the regiments fired one hundred cartridges per man, besides rifling the boxes of the killed and wounded. General Wood's brigade returned to Chattanooga on the 1st of December, and on the 3d it marched to Bridgeport; the march was continued to Woodville, where, in connection with the First Division of the Fifteenth Corps, the brigade acted as guard to the line of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. On the 1st of May, 1864, General Woods's command left Woodville, and marched by way of Bridgeport to Chattanooga. The troops pressed on through Snake Creek Gap, and about the 12th of May arrived near to Resaca. In the battle at that place General Woods handled his brigade with rare skill, and was highly complimented by his superior officers. He was next engaged at Dallas, and then again at Kenesaw; after which there was a series of fightings and flankings in which the General participated, until the occupation of Atlanta.

General Woods led his brigade through the Georgia campaign, and also the campaign of the Carolinas. At the close of the war he accompanied the army to Washington City, and participated in the grand review. On the 1st of July, 1865, by telegram from General Thomas, commanding at Nashville, he was assigned to the command of the Department of Alabama, with head-quarters at Mobile; where he remained through that and the ensuing year.

General Woods has participated in the following campaigns, skirmishes, sieges, and battles: Campaign of the Virginia Valley April, May, June, July, 1861; pursuit of Rebel forces in Kanawha Valley, November, 1861; battle of Fort Donelson; battle of Pittsburg Landing; siege of Corinth; expedition down the Mississippi, August, 1862; battle of Chickasaw Bayou; battle of Arkansas Post; Jackson, May 15, 1863; siege of Vicksburg and assault, May 22, 1863; siege of Jackson, July, 1863; skirmish at Canton, July, 1863; skirmish at Canton, July 17, 1863; skirmishes on Memphis and Charleston Railroad, near Cherokee Station and Tuscumbia, October, 1863; battle of Lookout Mountain; battle of Mission Ridge; battle of Ringgold. In the Atlanta campaign: Battle of Resaca; battle of Dallas; skirmishes near Kenesaw; siege of Atlanta and battles, 22d and 28th of July, 1864; battle of Jonesboro'; skirmish at Lovejoy's Station. In pursuit of Hood: Skirmishes at mouth of Octoba; Ship's Gap; Little River; and Turkeytown. Georgia campaign: Battle of Griswoldville; skirmish at Wright's Bridge; siege of Savannah. Campaign of the Carolinas: Skirmish at the Little Congaree; skirmish and capture of Columbia; and battle of Bentonville. During nearly five years of service General Woods was absent forty-seven days on leave; he was excused from duty on account of sickness ten days; and these constitute the sum of his absence. His command was never engaged in a skirmish or battle in which he also did not participate.

General Woods is portly in appearance, rather slow in movements and in conversation. He gives those who meet him the impression of a steady, solid, judicious, and trustworthy person, rather than one of special brilliancy. General Sherman once spoke of him as a "magnificent officer." Before the war his political sympathies were conservative and democratic.

BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL AUGUST V. KAUTZ.

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ENERAL KAUTZ was born on the 5th of January, 1828, in the

valley of Ispringen, near Potzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany. Six months after his birth his father emigrated to the United States, and after a residence of several years in Baltimore, Maryland, moved to Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, and in 1844 to the Ohio River, near Ripley, where he still resides. The General is the oldest of a family of seven children. His father was a carpenter, and sustained his family by his trade until his removal from Georgetown, when he commenced the production of Catawba wine. From his eleventh to his fourteenth year the General was employed principally in the printing offices in Georgetown, and from his fifteenth to his eighteenth year he assisted his father at his trade and at farming.

In June, 1846, young Kautz enlisted as a private in company G, First Ohio Volunteers, Colonel Alex. M. Mitchell commanding. The company was raised under the patronage of Thomas L. Hamer, afterward Brigadier-General, and went to Mexico. The regiment was assigned to the First Volunteer Field Brigade, General Hamer commanding. Kautz, then only eighteen years old, served out his enlistment of twelve months, and was with his regiment at the battle of Monterey. In 1848 he was appointed a cadet at the West Point Military Academy by Jonathan D. Morris, then member of Congress from the Sixth Congressional District. In 1852 he graduated, and was appointed Brevet Second-Lieutenant in the Fourth United States Infantry. He joined the regiment at Fort Vancouver, Oregon, in December, 1852, and served with it until the commencement of the rebellion. In the spring of 1853 he was ordered to Fort Steilacoom, on Puget Sound. In May of the same year he was sent down the sound in a boat to visit the Indians. After a month's absence, he returned and found that he had been promoted to be a full Second-Lieutenant, and had been ordered to join his company at Humboldt Bay, California.

He set out by land, in July, with a saddle-horse and a pack-horse. He crossed the mountains through the Nachess Pass, and was joined by two men who accompanied him to trade with the Indians. The greater portion of the distance to the Dalles, on the Columbia River, was made on foot, as one of the horses had given out and had to be abandoned. This region was at that time unexplored. At the Dalles he procured another horse, recrossed the mountains by the Emigrant Road, and came into Fort Vancouver at the time that an outbreak among the Rogue River Indians occurred, and a piece of artillery was called for by Captain Aldens. The distance was nearly four hundred miles, but

Kautz was dispatched with a sergeant and a twelve-pounder brass field howitzer and caisson. The march was made in thirteen days, which was a remarkably short time, considering the condition of the roads and the mountainous country over which he passed. When he reached Rogue River an engagement had taken place, and the Indians had agreed to treat. Lieutenant Kautz remained a few weeks, and then continued his journey to San Francisco, where he arrived in October.

At San Francisco he received orders to report to Fort Oxford, which is situated on the Oregon coast near the California line, and he remained in command of this post until January, 1856. Lieutenant Kautz's term of service at this post was a continuous series of interesting adventures. On the 25th of October, 1855, while making a reconnoissance through the Coast Range of mountains, from Fort Oxford to Fort Lane with forty men, he encountered a large force of hostile Indians. In an engagement with these Indians, Kautz lost two men and all his equipments, and narrowly escaped with his life. He was hit with a heavy rifle ball in his right side, and it was only prevented from proving fatal by striking a memorandum book in his breast pocket.

In December, 1855, he was promoted to a First-Lieutenant, and joined his company at Fort Steilacoom in the latter part of February, 1856, in time to take part in an expedition against the Indians, under Lieutenant-Colonel Casey, Ninth Infantry, in which he was wounded again in an engagement on White River, Washington Territory. He served as Quartermaster at Fort Steilacoom until October, 1858, when he was ordered to the North-Western Boundary Commission. In the spring of 1859 Lieutenant Kautz received a leave of absence, which was extended for a year, and during that time he visited Europe and spent the most of his leave on the Continent. Upon his return to the United States he was ordered immediately to accompany an expedition to convey recruits to Washington Territory. He joined his company at Fort Cheholis, on Gray's Harbor, Washington Territory, in December, 1860.

In May, 1861, he was detailed on recruiting service for his regiment, and arrived in New York a week after the battle of Bull Run. In the meantime he had been appointed Captain in the Sixth Cavalry, and he joined the regiment at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The organization of the regiment was completed at Washington City during the winter of 1861-2, and it made the campaign with the Army of the Potomac on the peninsula. Just before the seven days' fighting Kautz succeeded to the command of the regiment, and continued in command of it until the following September, when he was appointed Colonel of the Second Ohio Cavalry. He joined the regiment at Fort Scott, Kansas in October, and soon after his arrival procured an order for the regiment to return to Ohio to refit and remount. The winter of 1862-3 was spent in reorganizing, and in April, 1863, Kautz proceeded with the regiment to Kentucky. During the spring and summer he participated in several sharp engagements at and near Monticello, and a part of the time commanded a brigade composed of the Second and Seventh Ohio Cavalry. He was in the pursuit of John Morgan through Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio and Morgan's defeat at Buffington Island