Albert Kautz

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Albert Kautz (1839-1907) was an American naval officer, born at Georgetown, Ohio. He graduated at the Naval Academy in 1861. In June, 1861, as commander of a prize brig, he was captured near Cape Hatteras, but was released on parole and proceeded to Washington, where he succeeded in negotiating the first exchange of prisoners authorized by President Lincoln. His services in the engagements on the lower Mississippi received commendatory notice, and at the close of the Civil War he was made lieutenant commander. The Navy attracted him for another 36 years. In 1898 he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral and in 1901 he was retired.

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