Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-01

year, but she was returned by her faith
er shortly after.
Turning from the distressing domes-
tic side Of Judge Mackay's career we
find a man Of parts, indeed. AS stated,
he served on the bench Of South Caro-
lima fifteen years as common pleas
Judge He is the author Of the volumn
Proposed Reforms in the Law and
Practice Of Courts-Martial," brought
out by his able and brilliant defense
as counsel for the late Brigadier Cen
eral W. B. Hazen, chief signal officer U.
S. A. His brilliant defense of that gal
liant officer excited general admiration
throughout the country, From the in,
troductory to the book, subsequently
published by Judge Mackey, the fol-
! lowing reference to the gallant exploit
| of Admiral Schley in rescuing Lieuten-
ant Greeley. the present chief signal
| officer, U. S. A., and an important wit
ness, by the way, i'm the forthcoming
Court of Inquiry in behalf Of his res.
cuer.
Cape Sabine was the most southerly
! depot of supplies on the east side of
! Grinnell Land, Lieutenant Greeley IS
! designated line Of retreat. He brought
! his command there intact although
! travel-worn and exhausted, without the
! loss Of a single life or limb, and with
! iCs organization and discipline unim.
paired. And there II Law until famine
| had eaten it up Out Of a total Of rs
r. broken and shattered remnant of
only seven survived when rescued by
the relief expedition ot 1884, under
command of w. S. Schley, u. S. NJ,
who. for more than 1000 miles, ran a
race with death and braving every
peril. reached Cape Sabine June I'D,
| and there beheld a CHASTITY heap Of
dead and dying, which plainly told that
had lis splendidly-led fOrl0ru hope Of
rescue arrived a sir 7le day later the
| International Polar Expedition might
| have left not one survivor
Robert H. Lincoln, Secretary Of War.
and not Gen. w. b. Hazen, was the man
! rasDnnsihle for the DELAY in fitting out
he expedition, an, so history has re.
corded f.
But. to continue the main thread Of
our narrative, The Globe has discov-
cred that the only military maps Of the
war published i'm 1.-THE History Of the
War Of the Rebellion by the y. 8.
Govrnment, are from the brain and pen
of Captain Mackey, the Southern en-
gineer officer In volume Al, serial SO.
will be found the maps drafted by
Judge Mackey when wearing the uni
form Of captain OF engineers i'm the
Confederate army. Not another mill
tary map from any officer on either
side appears in these ponderous and
official volumes. He traced the lines
Of the Vicksburg and the Richmond
defenses or fortifications, and these
have been endorsed and made the Of
fetal maps Dy the u. S. Government
in the history referred to. The judge
has a rich military experience, fight
ing for the Lost Cause, and that he was
a valuable and serviceable officer, both
as engineer and fighter, the official rec
ords bear out. He is today, even In
his advanced years, the typical mill
tary figure Of a grizzled veteran, erect
I'm carriage and of compact build, with
the courteous bearing Of the Southern
gentleman, native and to the manor
born His language has the easy flow
Of the trained and cultured student,
tempered by those calm and iudicious
reflective faculties which his Is years
ON the bench so splendidly developed.
He is a magnificent combination OF
soldier and lawyer, judge and student
essayest and lecturer founded upon the
liberal primary education Of ante-bel-
lum DAYS i'm the old South, the whole
blended I'm with the natural courtli-
ness and the acquired accomplishments
af the born gentleman. He lis man
upon whom the loss of fortune and do
nestle tragedies have left their traces
Of sufferings noblv borne and DhilO-
sophically endured but las spirit is
free from bitterness and resentment
Neither war nor politics, love, domestic
tragedy or madness have been able TO
dim the lustre of his eve or bow his
martial and well-knit figure. He walks
in the serenity Of rounded age, know
ing the past and unintimidated by the
future.