Comments on: “Naval Officers and their Uniform” http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/blogdivided/2009/04/29/%e2%80%9cnaval-officers-and-their-uniform%e2%80%9d/ Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:18:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: sailerd http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/blogdivided/2009/04/29/%e2%80%9cnaval-officers-and-their-uniform%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-199 sailerd Sun, 31 May 2009 03:34:41 +0000 http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/blog/?p=300#comment-199 The letter is from the New York Herald, which I accessed through 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (database requires a subscription)

]]> By: Casual Passerby http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/blogdivided/2009/04/29/%e2%80%9cnaval-officers-and-their-uniform%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Casual Passerby Fri, 15 May 2009 20:26:21 +0000 http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/blog/?p=300#comment-198 Interesting clip indeed. However even in the part shown here, the letter-writer notes that the persons in uniform are “…guilty of indiscretions, to use a mild phrase.”

One wonders at the nature of these “indiscretions.” The first that come to mind involve either ardent spirits or ladies of questionable virtue, or both, but of course neither alcohol nor prostitution had been invented during the Civil War so those could not possibly be what he was talking about. :)

]]> By: PG http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/blogdivided/2009/04/29/%e2%80%9cnaval-officers-and-their-uniform%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-197 PG Tue, 05 May 2009 17:37:39 +0000 http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/blog/?p=300#comment-197 where did you get that old 1859 article? This is a great and informative post. thanks

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