{"id":300,"date":"2009-04-29T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:06:20","slug":"%e2%80%9cnaval-officers-and-their-uniform%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/04\/29\/%e2%80%9cnaval-officers-and-their-uniform%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNaval Officers and their Uniform\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/04\/thumb1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-299\" title=\"thumb1\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/04\/thumb1-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/04\/thumb1-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/04\/thumb1.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To see naval officers in uniform walking around New York city in 2009 is unremarkable. Yet in November 1859 a lieutenant wrote the New York <em>Herald<\/em> to address the fact \u201cthat a great number of naval officers are seen daily in the streets and public places in uniform.\u201d While careful to note that he was not \u201cashamed of [his] uniform,\u201d this officer believed such public display was wrong. \u201cIn our republican country,\u201d as he explained, \u201cit is not customary for offices of either \u201carm of national defense\u201d to war their uniforms, save on special occasions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This letter is <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/index.phpnode\/26039\" target=\"_blank\">available <\/a>on House Divided \u2013 while a transcript has not been posted, you can access the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/index.phpnode\/26029&amp;size=_original\" target=\"_blank\">page image<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To see naval officers in uniform walking around New York city in 2009 is unremarkable. Yet in November 1859 a lieutenant wrote the New York Herald to address the fact \u201cthat a great number of naval officers are seen daily in the streets and public places in uniform.\u201d While careful to note that he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,171],"tags":[161,167],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-historic-periodicals","tag-battles-soldiers","tag-education-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}