This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...epaulets. Such is briefly the long-existing system of military badges, which indicate to all members of the military community the kind of ceremonial of respect with which the presence of each is to be acknowledged. For this reason, these badges are equally important to all, whether of the line or staff. After ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...epaulets. Such is briefly the long-existing system of military badges, which indicate to all members of the military community the kind of ceremonial of respect with which the presence of each is to be acknowledged. For this reason, these badges are equally important to all, whether of the line or staff. After the general orders which confer assimilated rank were promulgated, distinctive epaulets were added to the uniform of medical officers and pursers, so that, still to borrow natural history terms, the badges they wear clearly mark them as of the tribe of commission officers; of the genus commander or lieutenant; species surgeon or purser, &c. But some gentlemen of the line, supposing, perhaps, that epaulets served to gratify individual pride in medical officers and pursers, rather than any other purpose; and believing too, that the multiplication of these ornaments in the service tended to lessen the " pomp and circumstance," which captivated and imposed on the imagination when they were worn only in the line, requested the Secretary of the Navy, they might be excused from wearing them any longer, suggesting indirectly that epaulets should be thereafter worn only by lieutenants of the line, medical officers, and pursers. The following extract from a communication signed " An Old Captain," published in the u National Intelligencer" at the time, is a graphic picture of what was conjectured would be the effect of this innovation, and is also indicative of the kind of feeling which existed on the subject. " If these borrowed plumes be indispensable to non-combatants and inferior officers, if they are necessary to maintain their dignity and respectability in the navy, let them retain them by all means; and if they...
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