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Marines played a gallant role at sea, as elements of landing parties, and. Naval Brigades serving with the Army. Service afloat made different demands upon equipment than service on land. The Corps. supplied much of its own clothing and accouterments, that more often than not. U. S. Marines, along with sailors. Corps employed distinctive warm weather clothing, and Marine. Detachments on ocean going vessels were issued special gear for both foul. Brevet Brigadier General Archibald Henderson, the . Henderson had served aboard. USS Constitution in 1. Commandant of the Corps. As Commandant, Henderson convened a board of. Corps uniforms. One of the first acts of his successor. Col. John Harris, was to send the board’s finding to the Navy Department. This. garment, rather long by today’s standards, had a skirt that extended. The Commandant wore his buttons in pairs. Enlisted. personnel had seven Marine buttons in each row. The distance between the rows of. Trimmed all around with scarlet piping, the standing collar rose only high. This collar hooked at the. Two loops of one. These loops each ended in small Marine buttons, with. The upper loop extended. The fronts of the loops. The full sleeves had a plain round cuff that was three inches deep, and each. These slash cuffs had loops of. Photographic evidence shows. Each of these loops held a. Marine button. Field grade officers wore four of these loops on each cuff. Captains wore three and Lieutenants had two. All enlisted men wore two loops of. Sergeant Major, the Quartermaster Sergeant, the Drum Major, and the Chief. Musicians, who wore three loops. The slash cuffs were all cut in a scalloped. With the varying number of loops on the slash cuffs. The Commandant and field grade officers were to. The skirts of the dress uniform coats were to be full. All ranks had two. These flaps, sewn. There were. two buttons sewn on to the flaps, one button at the bottom point, and one midway. There was also a button sewn just above the. The lining of the coats was black. An examination of an. Marine Corps Museum at the Washington Navy Yard. The bottom. edge of the skirt is directly in line with the top button on the coat. Musicians wore a scarlet, cochineal, dyed full dress coat. The Drum. Major and Chief Musicians wore double- breasted coats and the Musicians coats. Instead of scarlet piping, all musicians wore white. Trousers. All Marines wore sky- blue trousers with . Made loose, and designed to fit well over the bootee, the trousers of. Only the senior enlisted ranks, Sergeant Major and. Quartermaster Sergeant, and Orderly Sergeants, along with all musicians wore the. Officers not serving with troops were permitted to wear dark blue trousers. In warm weather. all Marines were permitted to wear white linen, or cotton trousers, cut like the. Full Dress Hats. The Commandant and all field grade officers wore a chapeau- bras of the. French pattern. These nautical appearing bicorne hats were worn in a . The length of the chapeau varied from seventeen to. Edged with. black silk lace, these hats sported a black cockade, held in place with a loop. The Commandant wore a plume of yellow swan. The plume was designed to lie along the crown of the chapeau- bras. Company grade officers, enlisted Marines and musicians wore a black cloth. These hats were five and one half inches tall at the front and six and. There were two bands of glazed black leather on the hat, with. The visor was perfectly straight and was one and a half inches. Officers wore a gold net pompon and enlisted men wore a worsted red pompon. Made over a cork foundation, the pompon was fixed with a three- inch. The base of the pompon was a hemisphere of. Enlisted personnel’s pompon was constructed in the. The ornament worn by company grade officers and enlisted Marines was a yellow. United States Shield within a half wreath of laurel leaves. In the center. of the shield was the emblem of the Corps, a light infantry bugle with an. Army’s Quartermaster general determined that the footwear. Dress regulations. We can conclude that the ankle. Jefferson meant a high quarter shoe, or a. These bootees were extremely square- toed, with. Marines were issued eight (8) pairs of shoes. During the Civil War Era, even the cheapest of footwear came in pairs made on. Soles were sewn to uppers or fastened by pegs, nails, and. The heels on officer's bootees were rather high, but this. American military footwear was invariably made. Epaulettes. All Marines wore two epaulettes on the full dress coat. The epaulettes worn. Inside the crescent. Corps, the Infantry bugle with the silver. The Commandant and all field grade officers. Marine Captains wore bullion that was one- fourth an inch in diameter and. Lieutenants had fringe that was one- eighth an inch. All enlisted ranks wore brass scale epaulettes, similar to the U. S. Army. Dress uniform epaulettes. Made entirely from brass, enlisted epaulettes had a. Detachable, yellow worsted fringe hung from the. The top four. enlisted ranks, Sergeant Major’s, Quartermaster Sergeant’s, Drum Major’s. Chief Musicians’ epaulettes had fringe that was three- eighths of an inch. Sergeants’ fringe was one quarter inch in diameter, Corporals’. Privates’ fringe was one sixteenth inch in diameter. Undress Frock Coats. All officers wore, for undress, a double- breasted dark blue frock coat. With. the exception of the lack of lace and scarlet piping, this coat was nearly. The sleeves of the. Marine buttons on the cuff. The. standing collar and cuffs of the Commandant was made of dark blue velvet. Once. again, there are pockets in the skirt, however, the pocket only had one button. There was also a button at each hip, giving a total of four. In lieu of epaulettes, all officers wore. Russian shoulder knots of gold cord. These knots will be discussed later, under. Insignia. All enlisted ranks, including musicians, wore dark indigo blue kersey frock. This single- breasted garment had seven large buttons on the front and one. The coat had a standup collar, somewhat shorter than the. The cuffs of this coat were two and a half inches deep and had. The skirt of the enlisted undress frock coat had no pockets and. Fatigue Caps. With undress and fatigue uniforms, all Marines wore a dark blue kepi. These. fatigue caps were a copy of the French Chassuer pattern cap, and came with a. The top of the crown was counter sunk and Officer’s caps were. One row of black silk braid sewn around the crown and a. This knot, still in use in Marine. Officer’s uniforms today, is known as the Quatrefoil. Enlisted personnel wore. Kepi. Badge. The Marine ornament, adopted with in 1. Old English . The enlisted ornament was made of brass. Again, as with the. This coat was also permitted to be worn by officers visiting ashore. The white linen coat was never to be worn on ceremonial. Officers' Fatigue Coats. Enlisted Sacks. Officers also had a shell- type jacket of dark blue cloth, lined with scarlet. The cuffs of the sleeve also had points of. Enlisted personnel, while on board seagoing vessels, were permitted to wear. This dark blue garment, actually an oversized shirt. The length of the sack, or jersey as it was called in. The sack had a small turndown collar and regulations stated that. Marine buttons. Photographic. Sacks were made with five small Marine buttons at the. When the sack was worn enlisted Marines were required to wear a white. Greatcoats. Officers wore a . Like both. the French and U. S. Army version, the Marine officer’s coat had a detachable. A braid of eighth inch of black silk ribbon distinguished officer's ranks. These unlined coats were to be of a. The. sleeves of the enlisted overcoat had five (5) inch cuffs that were meant to fold. Non- Commissioned Officers wore their chevrons. Shirts. Enlisted personnel were issued both white and blue flannel shirts. According. to photographic evidence however, many Marines continued to wear Red flannel. Shirts worn by men in the 1. These shirts had a simple turnover collar fastened by up to. This garment was actually an undershirt since it was not. Neckstocks. All Marines were to wear black neck- stocks, hence the nickname. A surviving stock of the. The. back of this stock had a smaller strip of leather; . All other officers were. The Sword Belt Plate for officers was. Sword Belt Plate for U. S. Army officers of this era. According. to photographic evidence, most Marine officers appear to wear the black leather. US Army sword belt for all undress occasions, regulating the white sword belt. According to the 1. Clothing Regulations, enlisted personnel wore a white. This belt did. not at once replace the older belts and there seems to be some question whether. An examination of a belt on display at the U. S. Company grade officers, Second and First Lieutenants and Captains. Field Grade officers (Majors, Lt. Colonels and Colonels) wearing. Second Lieutenants and Majors wore no insignia on the. First Lieutenants wore an embroidered single bar sewn directly on the. Captains wore two (2) bars. Colonels wore a silver embroidered oak. Colonels wore a spread eagle. The Commandant wore a silver. All officers, except the Commandant, wore a crimson, or wine, colored silk. This sash was long enough to wrap twice around the. Officers of the day wore the sash over the. The Commandant was authorized to wear a. Orderly Sergeants and above wore a waist sash of red worsted, with fringe. The. pendant was to not hang more than eighteen inches below the knot. This sash was. worn over the coat with all uniforms except the fatigue sack. Non- commissioned Officers wore chevrons on all outer garments. These chevrons. were worn points up, unlike the Army’s points down method. The Sergeant Major wore three (3) bars and an arc of yellow silk lace that.
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