Both lieutenants and masters had collar lace one inch wide and lieutenants the same lace on their full dress trousers. For a commander, the collar and trouser lace was one and a quarter inch wide and he had two strips of three-quarter inch lace on his cuffs. The captain in full dress is identified by the three strips of three-quarter inch lace around his cuffs, and by the inches and a half wide lace around the top of the collar and down the seams of his trousers. The painting shows the various types of uniforms specified for Line and Staff officers and some of the details of insignia. It was from 1852 that the “uniform” uniform really developed. The two previous instructions had employed a few drawings to show details, but the 1852 order was the first to give pictorial information on insignia, devices, hats and to include illustrations of officers in the various types of dress. One innovation was the employment of gold lace on the sleeves to indicate an officer’s rank, the current practice in blue uniforms. The present system of using distinctive corps devices to identify officers of the Line and Staff, although begun in a small way in 1830, was further developed. This order, with modifications prescribed the dress of the Federal Navy during the Civil War. A most important period in the development of the uniform of the United States Navy was instituted in 1852 when a new regulation was issued on March the 8th.
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