History of Northern California
Augustus Washington Starr, military records
Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California,
Chicago, Lewis Publ. Co., 1891, p483

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Burial record:
St. Helena Public, 2461 Spring Street, St. Helena, Napa County, CA
Lot 24, Section Block A
Marker ordered by/paid for/set by: 2nd California Cavalry, Co. F, 
Donald G. Treco, Cmdg.  [www.californiacavalry.us[
Born: 28 Nov 1834
Died: 26 Jun 1907
Enlisted: 13 Sep 1861
Discharged: 27 Jun 1866
Source: Sons of Union Veterans [http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/index.php]
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Augustus Washington Starr, military records:

According to a telephone call to the California Military Museum in 
Sacramento on February 20, 2000:

Augustus Starr enlisted in Company F, 2nd regiment, California 
Volunteer Cavalry, on August 29, 1861; mustered on September 15, 
1861 (as a 2nd lieutenant); promoted to 1st lieutenant July 23, 1862; 
promoted to Captain, February 10, 1863; received a temporary rank 
as Brevet Major; was mustered out June 27, 1866.  The Museum did 
not have records for service in the U. S. 8th Cavalry.

Company F:  Mustered in Sacramento at Fort Union in 1861; was at 
Fort Union in April and May of 1863; went to Fort Bidwell in Chico J
uly of 1863 to March of 1864; was back at Fort Union from April, 1864 
to September, 1864; went to Bear Valley; was back at Fort Union in 
December of 1864 and January of 1865; went to Ione Valley; was back 
at Camp Union; went to Colusa in May of 1865; went to Fort Cook in 
Shasta County in June of 1865; went to Fort Bidwell in Siskiyou County 
in August and September of 1865; went to Snake River, Nevada in 1865; 
and went to Fort Crook in December of 1865 and January of 1866; to 
Fort Bidwell in March of 1866; to Goose Lake in May of 1866.

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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, p483

CAPTAIN A. W. STARR, 
Superintendent of the Star Mills at South Vallejo, has been a resident of 
the Golden State since 1853, and has lived in Vallejo for the past nineteen 
years, and in charge of the mills for the past ten years.  He was born in 
Huron County, Ohio, in 1834, his parents being Orange and ----Starr, natives 
of New York State, who were among the early settlers of Ohio.  At the age 
of fourteen years he entered business life as a clerk in a country store in 
Plymouth, Ohio, and continued there until he was eighteen years old; then 
he came to California, by way of Panama, arriving in San Francisco in 
February, 1853.  Proceeding at once to the mining district, he kept a store 
there ten months, and then was clerk in a store in Sacramento until 1861.  
In September, 1861, he assisted in raising a company of cavalry, was 
appointed Second Lieutenant, and served during the war in different 
portions of the State, part of the time in Northern California against the 
Indians.  His was Company F, Second Regiment of California Volunteer 
Cavalry.  In the spring of 1863 he was promoted to First Lieutenant and 
a few months afterward Captain.  June 6, 1866, he was mustered out, in
command of his company.  In February, 1867, he entered the regular army  
as Second Lieutenant, attached to the Eighth United States Cavalry, and 
remained in service until 1871, meanwhile, in 1868, being promoted First 
Lieutenant, and in December, 1869, to the Captaincy, and during this period 
of service he was in Nevada and New Mexico. - Becoming tired of the 
inactivity of the military service, he took charge of the mills at Vallejo, and 
has since remained as their manager.  Their capacity is 2,000 barrels per 
day, 250 tons of wheat, 1,300 bags of bran, 500 bags of middlings.  It has 
two engines:  one, of 600-horse power, was manufactured by the Union 
Iron Works in San Francisco, and called the O'Neil engine, and the other 
is a 300-horse power Corliss engine.  Coal from the Pittsburg mine in Mount 
Diablo is used.  The mills are six stories high, each floor fully occupied.  The 
market is principally in Great Britain and Europe, the main office in Liverpool.  
This mill has been running since 1869.

Also see: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htmcivilwar/ccwr/2ndRegCavF.txt