Staff officers of the same relative rank as their Line counterparts wore the lace indicated, but without the star. A five pointed star to be worn above the lace was introduced and has remained the device of the Line ever since. The combinations of three-quarter and quarter-inch lace were replaced by strips of quarter-inch lace, from eight for a rear admiral to one for an ensign. Officers, while detailed as chief of a Bureau, were to rank with commodores.Ī major modification of the uniform instructions, following the extensive 1862 change, occurred in May 1863. Naval Constructors after 20 years service, with captains.Naval Constructors, Chaplains and Professors of Mathematics, with more than 12 years in grade, with commanders and those with less than 12 years service, with lieutenant commanders.
The relative rank granted those officers not previously coordinated with their Line counterparts was established as follows: The third assistant engineers retained their warrant status, ranking with midshipmen. Passed assistant surgeons held the relative rank of lieutenant assistant surgeons, paymasters and first assistant engineers ranked with masters second assistant engineers, with ensigns. After five years in grade, surgeons, paymasters and chief engineers ranked with commanders, and for the first five years with lieutenant commanders. Another reason for the issuance of a new uniform order was the granting of relative rank to certain commissioned civil officers, who previously had no form of rank, and the modification of the relative rank of medical officers, paymasters (pursers until 1860) and engineers.īy a “General Order” dated 13 March 1863, Fleet Surgeons, Paymasters and Engineers and other officers in these departments who had had more than fifteen years in the senior ranks of these corps, were to rank with captains of the Line. The Navy had expanded greatly and many of the officers and men were the volunteers so badly needed to supplement the comparatively small regular Navy of 1861 when the war began. Changes had taken place after the modifications of 1862, so a new complete order was needed to provide a better understanding of what uniforms, insignia and rank designations were to be worn. The instruction of 1862 was but a modification of the 1852 order, not a new regulation. The Regulations for the Uniform of the Navy of the United States, approved by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles on 28 January 1864, finally brought all the changes to the 1852 instruction up to date.
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