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indelibly with the modern seal of the earth's waters. Having performed 

 his duties to the satisfaction of his superior officer, and having received 

 their official commendation for his part in the final success of the Atlantic 

 cable, which was successfully landed at Trinity Bay, August 5, 1858, 

 Macauley received orders detaching him, with three months' leave, August 

 19, 1858. 



These three months of leave passed all too soon if one considers that on 

 January 28, of the same year, he had been married to one of the most 

 beautiful women who ever graced the ballrooms of Philadelphia, Miss 

 Josephine Mcllvaine Berkeley (daughter of Dr. Carter Nelson Berkelej', 

 of "Edgewood," Hanover county, Va., and Ellen Reed McTlvaine, who 

 was the daughter of Joseph Reed Mcllvaine, of Burlington, N. J.). 



There is a pathos in the mere record of the date of this marriage on 

 January 28, alongside of that of tlie orders of the Navy Department to 

 join the Niayara, February 1, of the same year. 



The last cruise had used him up, and he was much worried at the condi- 

 tion of his health. Through the influence of the Hon. Henry M. Rice, 

 Senator from Minnesota, a year's sick leave was granted him. He went 

 with his bride to St. Paul, where they lived in Mr. Rice's house on Summit 

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Within a few months this leave was cut short on September 20, 1858, by 

 orders to the naval observatory at Washington, which were followed by 

 waiting orders on the following Washington's birthday (February 22, 

 1859), and on August 1, 1859, to the Supply. These last orders were too 

 much for the young husband. He resigned from the service ; his resig- 

 nation being accepted August 19, 1859. 



After considering various plans for the future, Macauley went into 

 business in St. Paul, Minn., where the first call to arms to suppress the 

 rebellion aroused him. 



He immediately tendered his services to the Government on the outbreak 

 of the Civil War, yet in the official record by the Navy Department of 

 Admiral Macauley's services the first entry after the date of his accepted 

 resignation is "Commissioned Lt. Comd'r., April 18, 1863." 



It transpires from the writer's correspondence with the Navy Depart- 

 ment that Macauley received orders from the Department to report to 

 Capt. DuPont for duty on May 11, 1861, and by the latter was ordered to 

 the U. S. steamer Blag, which was engaged in blockade duty on the coasts 

 of Florida. He remained with her during parts of 1861 and 1862, 

 and commanded the U. S. steamer Fort Henry, of the East Gulf Squadron, 

 in parts of 1862 and 1863. 



On April 18, 1863, he was ordered to the command of the Tioga, and 

 while serving in her took part in the boat attack on Bayport, Fla. 



His services on these small vessels, where he was exposed to the scourge 

 of yellow fever, in addition to the ordinary vicissitudes of naval warfare, 

 were most valuable, but as in the cases of so many others of the Navy 

 these services were either never recorded, or the record has never been 



