REGULATIONS FOR THE NAVY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, 1862.
CHAPTER 5.
MILITARY HONORS AND CEREMONIES.
ARTICLE 1.
Military honors to the President.
When the President of the Confederate States shall visit a vessel of the navy, he shall be received upon the deck by all the officers, in full uniform; the yards shall be manned; the full guard shall be paraded, and shall present arms; the music shall give three ruffles of the drum and play a march, and a salute of twenty-one guns shall be fired. And the same honors shall be paid when he leaves the ship.
ARTICLE 2.
National ensign to be hoisted at the main during the
presence of the President on board.
The presence of the President of the Confederate States on board of any vessel of the navy will be indicated by the display of the Confederate ensign at the main; and during the time of such display, the flag or pendant indicating the command of any other officer will be struck. When the President is known to be on board of any vessel or boat which passes by or near any vessel of the navy authorized to fire salutes, he shall be saluted with twenty-one guns, and yards shall be manned.
ARTICLE 3.
Military honors to the Vice President.
When the Vice President of the Confederate States shall visit a vessel of the navy, the same honors shall be paid as are directed in article one, except that the salute shall consist of nineteen guns.
ARTICLE 4.
Same to an ex-President.
When an ex-President shall visit a vessel-of-war of the Confederate States, he shall be received with the same honors as those prescribed for the President, except the display of the Confederate ensign at the main, and manning the yards.
ARTICLE 5.
Same to an ex-Vice President.
An ex-Vice President the same as the Vice President, except manning the yards.
ARTICLE 6.
Same to a foreign sovereign.
A foreign sovereign, or the chief magistrate of any foreign State, on visiting a vessel of the Confederate States, shall be received with the honors and ceremonies prescribed for the President of the Confederate States, the band playing the national march of the person saluted, and the flag of the nation being displayed at the main.
ARTICLE 7.
Honors to Cabinet Officers, Judges of the Supreme
Court, and Governors of States.
When the Secretary of the Navy, or other member of the cabinet, or Justice of the Supreme Court, or the Governor of any one of the Confederate States, shall visit a vessel of the navy, the same honors shall be paid as are prescribed in Article 1, except that but one salute is to be given, to consist of seventeen guns, and to be fired on leaving the ship.
ARTICLE 8.
Honors to flag-officers.
A flag-officer, being the commander-in-chief of a squadron, shall be received on deck by all the officers in uniform; an officers guard shall be paraded and present arms, and the drum shall give two ruffles. If commanding a squadron or division, but not in chief, he shall be received in the same manner, except that the drum shall give one ruffle.
ARTICLE 9.
Military honors to captains.
Captains on duty and in uniform with epaulets, shall, when they visit a vessel of the navy commanded by an officer of the same or of inferior rank, be received on deck by the commander of the vessel visited, by the officer second in command, and by the officers of the watch. A sergeants guard will be paraded and present arms.
ARTICLE 10.
Military honors to commanders.
Commanders on duty as such, and in uniform with swords, shall, when they visit a vessel of the navy, commanded by an officer of the same or inferior rank, be received on deck by the commander of the vessel visited, by the officer second in command, and by the officers of the watch. A corporals guard will be paraded and present arms.
ARTICLE 11.
Same to lieutenants commanding.
Lieutenants in command of vessels rated six guns or over shall be received, when on duty and in uniform with swords, as commanders, with the exception of the guard.
ARTICLE 12.
Officers may dispense with guards.
Any officer entitled to a guard may dispense with it at his pleasure.
ARTICLE 13.
Commission officers below rank of commander.
All commission officers below the rank of commander shall be received by the officer of the watch, excepting in the case provided for in article 11.
ARTICLE 14.
Warrant officers, how to be received.
Warrant officers shall be received by a warrant officer of the watch.
ARTICLE 15.
Salutes for flag-officers.
The salute for a flag officer, when commander-in-chief of a squadron, shall be thirteen guns, and when commanding a squadron or division but not commanding in chief, shall be eleven guns.
ARTICLE 16.
No officer of the navy other than a flag-officer to
be saluted, except.
No officer of the navy other than a flag-officer is to be saluted; but salutes to a superior by captains commanding single vessels shall be returned with nine guns, salutes by a commander, with seven guns, and when given by a lieutenant commanding, with five guns.
ARTICLE 17.
Salute when an officer assumes command of a fleet.
When an officer shall be appointed to the command of any fleet, division or squadron, he shall, on assuming the command and hoisting his flag, receive the salute to which he may be entitled from all the vessels present which belong to his fleet, squadron or division, except when in presence of a senior officer, in which case the officer, on hoisting his flag, shall salute the senior officer, who alone shall return the salute.
ARTICLE 18.
Salute when a vessel first joins or meets a
squadron.
A vessel when first joining or meeting a squadron, or which may rejoin after a separation or not less than twelve months, shall salute the commander-in-chief, if he is present.
ARTICLE 19.
No salute to be fired in the presence of a superior,
except.
No salute shall ever be fired in the presence of a senior without his permission, previously obtained, except a salute given to such senior officer.
ARTICLE 20.
Salutes when squadrons, &c., meet.
When fleets, squadrons, or divisions meet, the commanding officers only shall salute.
ARTICLE 21.
When more than one vessel salutes an officer.
In all cases where more than one vessel shall salute an officer the officer saluted shall wait until they have all ceased firing, and then fire the number of guns to which he is entitled as a salute.
ARTICLE 22.
Officers of the army or marine corps, how to be
received.
If officers of the army or marine corps shall visit any vessel of the navy in uniform, those having the rank by commission, other than brevet of major general, shall be received as commanders-in-chief of squadrons; brigadier generals as commanders of divisions or of squadrons when not commanding in chief; colonels and lieutenant colonels as captains; majors as commanders; captains as lieutenants; first lieutenants as masters, and second lieutenants as passed midshipmen; Provided, That if a grade is created between those of commander and lieutenant, then lieutenant colonels shall be received as commanders, and majors as the officers of the grade created.
ARTICLE 23.
When colors are to be hoisted, on.
On the anniversary of the declaration of independence of the Confederate States the colors shall be hoisted at sunrise; at the same time all vessels in commission shall, when in port, be dressed with flags, and so continue until the colors are hauled down at sunset, if the state of the weather and other circumstances will permit.
ARTICLE 24.
No national flag except the Confederate, to be used
in dressing ship.
No national flag except that of the Confederate States shall be used in dressing ship.
ARTICLE 25.
Salutes on the 22d of February, &c.
On the anniversary of the declaration of independence of the Confederate States, and on the twenty-second day of February, the anniversary of the birth of Washington, a salute of twenty-one guns shall be fired at meridian from vessels in commission and navy yards.
ARTICLE 26.
Commanders of vessels in foreign ports to give notice to authorities of any anniversary it is intended to celebrate.
The commanding officers of vessels of the Confederate States, when in foreign ports, shall give timely information to the public authorities on shore, and to the commanding officers of foreign vessels-of-war, of any anniversary or other event which it is intended to celebrate; and should the public authorities or foreign vessels fire salutes in honor of the occasion, the salutes are not to be returned, unless the failure to do so would give offence, but a message of acknowledgment and thanks shall be promptly sent to the public authorities, and all others who may have publicly displayed any mark of honor or respect on the occasion.
ARTICLE 27.
Salutes to diplomatic corps.
The salutes for persons of diplomatic rank shall be as follows:
Ambassadors, Papal nuncios, or legates, .17 guns.
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, 15 guns.
Ministers resident, 13 guns.
Charge daffaires and commissioners, .11 guns.
Consuls general and vice-consuls general, . 9 guns.
Consuls, ..7 guns.
Vice-consuls and other commercial agents holding regular appointments, ..5 guns.
When foreign diplomatic persons visit vessels of the Confederate States, the ensign of the nation to which they belong will be hoisted at the fore, during the firing of the salute, but this must not be done in case of visits of diplomatic persons of the Confederate States; and the salutes prescribed in this article shall not be given more than once to the same official by the same vessel at the same time at shorter intervals than twelve months, except in cases of foreign officials, and then only on occasions of particular ceremony.
ARTICLE 28.
Forts, &c., of the Confederate States, not to be saluted.
Forts, cities, or castles of the Confederate States are not to be saluted by any Confederate States vessel-of-war.
ARTICLE 29.
Salutes from foreign vessels to be returned, how.
When any foreign vessel-of-war of a nation in amity with the Confederate States shall arrive in a port of the Confederate States where there is a vessel of the navy or a navy yard, the commanding officer shall send a proper officer on board to offer the usual civilities and any assistance which the foreign vessel may require; but he is not to visit him first, nor salute the vessel, but shall return a salute, if one shall be given, gun for gun.
ARTICLE 30.
Commanders, on visiting foreign ports, to make first visit.
The commanding officer of any fleet, squadron, or vessel will, after anchoring in any foreign port, make the first visit to the commanding naval officer of the station to which the port belongs, and to the authorities of the place: Provided, The usual offers of civilities shall have been first made to him by the commanding officer of the naval force.
ARTICLE 31.
Vessels of the Confederate States may salute a foreign place, when.
Vessels of the Confederate States may, on their arrival in a foreign port, salute the place, upon receiving an assurance that the salute shall be returned gun for gun. The sails shall be furled when a port or place is saluted.
ARTICLE 32.
Vessels of the Confederate States may salute a foreign vessel.
Vessels of the Confederate States may salute vessels of war of other nations in foreign ports when commanded by officers wearing broad pendants or of superior rank, on receiving an assurance of a return, gun for gun. If at anchor, the topsails shall be loosed when a vessel is saluted.
ARTICLE 33.
Confederate States vessels may hoist flags of other nations and fire salutes, when.
Vessels of the Confederate States may fire salutes, and wear the ensign of the country saluted at one of the mast-heads, when in foreign ports, upon the celebration of any national anniversary of the country to which the port belongs, or when the national anniversary of another country in amity with the Confederate States shall be celebrated by the vessels of war of such country which may be lying in the same port.
ARTICLE 34.
Honors to foreign naval or military officers visiting Confederate States vessels.
When naval or military officers of a foreign nation shall visit a vessel of the Confederate States, they may be received with the same honors as are herein prescribed as salutes or returns to salutes for officers of the Confederate States of the same rank; if of higher rank, according to the rule of their own service.
ARTICLE 35.
A Confederate States vessel in a foreign port shall conform to the established usages of the place.
On the arrival of any Confederate States vessel in any foreign port, the commanding officer shall ascertain, through the Confederate States consul or otherwise, what salutes and ceremonies have been usually given and observed by other vessels-of-war visiting the port, also the civil and military regulations of the port, and shall govern himself accordingly.
ARTICLE 36.
Foreigners of distinction may be saluted.
Foreigners of distinction, not being naval officers in command, may, when they shall visit vessels of the Confederate States, be saluted with a number of guns corresponding with their rank, upon leaving the vessels.
ARTICLE 37.
Vessels of the Confederate States mounting less than ten guns not to fire a salute with a greater number, unless.
No vessel of the Confederate States mounting less than ten guns shall fire, as a salute or a return to a salute a greater number of guns than she mounts, excepting when it may be necessary to salute or return a salute to a foreign port or vessel and there is no opportunity to make this rule known.
ARTICLE 38.
Vessels prohibited from firing salutes, unless.
No vessel of the navy mounting five guns or less, no storeship or transport, shall fire a salute on any occasion, nor return a salute, unless the declining to do so would give offence, in which case the return salute is to be limited to the guns mounted; and no surveying vessel is ever to fire or return a salute.
ARTICLE 39.
Confederate States vessels not to lower their sails or ensigns, unless.
Vessels of war of the Confederate States are never to lower their sails or ensigns as a salute to any foreign ship or ships, unless such foreign ships shall at the same time, lower their sails or ensigns to the vessels of the Confederate States.
ARTICLE 40.
Funeral honors to a President or ex-President of the Confederate States.
The funeral honors to be paid upon the death of a President, or an ex-President of the Confederate States, will be those prescribed by special orders from the Secretary of the Navy.
ARTICLE 41.
Funeral honors to the commander-in-chief of a fleet, squadron, or division.
When the commander of a fleet, squadron, division, or vessel, shall die during his command, the ensign and pendants of all the vessels present which have been under their respective commands shall, when at sea, be hoisted half-mast during the performance of the funeral service; and, when in port, from the time of his decease until sunset of the day in which the funeral service is performed. At sea when the body shall be committed to the deep, and in port when it leaves the vessel to proceed on shore, the vessel in which he shall have been embarked shall fire as many guns, at intervals of a minute, as shall be equal to the number designated as the salute or return salute for officers of his rank and command.
ARTICLE 42.
Funeral honors to other commission officers, masters, and secretaries to flag-officers.
When a commission officer, other than those enumerated in Article 41, or a master, or a secretary to a commander-in-chief, shall die in actual service, the ensign of the vessel to which he belonged shall be worn at half-mast during the performance of the funeral service when at sea; and in port till sunset of the day of the funeral. When the body is committed to the deep, or to the grave on shore, the full marine guard shall fire three volleys.
ARTICLE 43.
Funeral honors to warrant officers.
For warrant officers the ensign shall be worn at half-mast during the performance of the funeral service, and a sergeants guard of fourteen men shall fire three volleys.
ARTICLE 44.
Funeral honors to petty officers and persons of inferior ratings.
For petty officers, seamen, and persons of inferior rating, the ensign shall be worn at half-mast during the performance of the funeral service: and a corporals guard of ten men for petty officers, and of eight for seamen and persons of inferior rating, shall fire three volleys.
ARTICLE 45.
Funeral honors to members of the marine corps.
The funeral honors to be rendered to officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the marine corps, shall be regulated by their assimilated rank.
ARTICLE 46.
Funeral honors to others of the navy who may die on board.
Whenever any other person belonging to the navy shall die on board a vessel of the navy, the ensign shall be worn at half-mast during the performance of the funeral service.
ARTICLE 47.
Funeral honors not to be paid to officers not on duty, except to senior captains, except.
When any officer in the navy, not on duty, other than the senior captain shall die, public funeral honors will not be paid, except by order of the Secretary of the Navy, nor in any case at any other place than the place of his decease, unless otherwise specially directed.
ARTICLE 48.
Military honors to be paid between sunrise and sunset.
No military honors shall be paid except between the rising and setting of the sun.
ARTICLE 49.
Commanders of squadrons will call on ministers and charge daffaires; captains on them and consuls general, &c.
Commanding officers of squadrons and of single vessels visiting a port where there is a representative of the Confederate States of rank not less than charge daffaires, will call upon him in person. Captains of single vessels will, under similar circumstances, call upon such and consuls general; and commanders and lieutenants commanding vessels, upon the foregoing and on consuls.
ARTICLE 50.
Ceremonies to be observed by officers in boats.
Boats not heavily laden will, on meeting or passing other boats, observe the following marks of respect:
1st. To a boat bearing a flag or broad pendant, boats carrying narrow pendants will lie on their oars; all other boats will toss their oars.
2d To a boat bearing the narrow pendant of a captain of a frigate, all boats will lie on their oars.
3d. Officers in boats meeting or passing their own immediate commander with a pendant on his boat, will salute him by lying on their oars.
4th. All officers in boats will touch their hats to each other when passing, and boats saluted will return the salute by tossing the bow oars.
5th. The same marks of respect are to be paid to boats carrying foreign officers as to our own.
ARTICLE 51.
Ceremonies to be observed at the gangway.
The ceremonies to be observed at the gangway on officers leaving or coming on board shall be regulated by the assignment of quarters, as cabin officers, wardroom officers, and steerage or forward officers, as follows:
1st. A commander-in-chief of a squadron shall be attended by the boatswain and eight side boys.
2d. A commander of a squadron not commanding in chief, by the boatswain and six side boys.
3d. Other cabin officers by the boatswain and four side boys.
4th. Wardroom officers by a boatswains mate and two side boys.
5th. Steerage and forward officers by two side boys.
6th. A commander, when doing duty as executive officer, if messing in the wardroom, shall be considered as a wardroom officer.
7th. The sentinel at the gangway will present arms to cabin officers, and carry arms to wardroom officers.
8th. Officers who may be invited to mess in the cabin, will not on that account receive any higher honors or ceremonies than those accorded to officers of their proper apartments.
9th. In going into or leaving boats on duty, the executive officer will always have the precedence, and other officers will go according to precedence.
ARTICLE 52.
Ceremonies at the gangway may be dispensed with.
These ceremonies may be dispensed with for others than foreign officers after tattoo, and only one light be shown by the quartermaster of the watch.
ARTICLE 53.
When the commanders of squadrons or single vessels are absent at night.
When the commanding officer of a squadron or of a single vessel is absent from his ship, and is expected to return to her during the night, a light shall be hoisted at the peak, and for the commander of a squadron the top-light shall also be shown.
ARTICLE 54.
Starboard gangway for the use of commission and warrant officers.
As a general rule, in port, the starboard gangway is to be reserved for the use of commission and warrant officers and visitors. When boats are about to leave or to approach it, and more than one are near at the same time, those with junior or inferior officers are to give precedence to those with senior or superior officers.
ARTICLE 55.
Ladders used by commission and warrant officers.
The after hatchway ladder of ships of the line and frigates is to be used by cabin and wardroom officers; the hatchway ladder next forward of it by other officers.
ARTICLE 56.
All officers to salute when they meet.
All inferiors, in passing a superior, or when they address him on duty, shall touch their hats, and superiors are strictly enjoined to return such salutes. The fact that an officer is not on duty or in uniform shall not be regarded as an excuse for any act of disrespect or omission of naval courtesy on the part of an officer to a superior whose rank is known; and no personal feelings are to be allowed to interfere with reciprocal courtesy, or pleaded as an excuse for its neglect.
ARTICLE 57.
Officers coming on quarter deck to salute.
Every officer, on coming on the quarter deck, either from a boat or from below, is to salute by touching his hat, which salute shall be returned by the officer of the deck.
ARTICLE 58.
Officers to show respect to foreign officers.
Officers are never to omit any mark of respect which may be due to the rank of foreign officers.
ARTICLE 59.
No officer under rank of captain to hoist a broad pendant.
No officer under the rank of captain shall be entitled to wear a broad pendant; nor shall any captain hoist one without the direction of the Secretary of the Navy.
ARTICLE 60.
Captains entitled to broad pendants.
When a captain shall be authorized to hoist a broad pendant he shall be entitled to wear it until ordered to strike it by the Secretary of the Navy, except when he shall be in the presence of a senior captain wearing a narrow pendant.
ARTICLE 61.
When two or more captains meet.
When two or more captains entitled to wear broad pendants shall meet, the senior in rank shall wear a blue pendant; the second in rank shall wear a red pendant, and those junior shall wear white pendants.
ARTICLE 62.
A captain may shift his broad pendant from one vessel to another of his fleet, &c.
A captain entitled to wear a broad pendant may, if circumstances require it, shift his pendant to any of the vessels of his fleet, squadron, or division, assigning, by the first opportunity, to the Secretary of the Navy, or the commander-in-chief, his reasons for doing so.
ARTICLE 63.
Pendant of the commander of a squadron not to be worn by any vessel, unless.
The pendant of the commander of a squadron shall not be worn by any vessel at sea, unless the officer entitled to it shall be embarked in her, nor upon any vessel in a port in the Confederate States when the officer entitled to it is absent from the port; and such officer is to direct it to be struck when he leaves such port with an intention to remain more than twenty-four hours; and during such absence the senior officer present shall issue necessary orders according to such directions as may have been given to him by the commander of the squadron.
ARTICLE 64.
During the absence of commander-in-chief in a foreign port, his pendant to be worn by vessel commanded by officer next in rank, except.
When the commander of a squadron shall, in a foreign port leave his command with intention to be absent as aforesaid, his pendant shall not be struck, but shall be worn by the ship commanded by the officer next in rank to him, if such officer is senior to the captain of the fleet or to his principal aid; but if either of those officers should be the senior present, the pendant will not be shifted, and such officer will command in the absence of the commander of the squadron, according to such directions as he may have received from him.
ARTICLE 65.
National anniversaries falling on a Sunday.
When a national anniversary, for which a salute shall be fired, shall fall on a Sunday, the salute and the other ceremonies shall be observed on the succeeding day, and in no case shall a salute be fired on Sunday unless the failure to do so would give offence; but salutes may be returned on that day.
ARTICLE 66.
Vessel joining a commanding officer on Sunday may salute on Monday.
If a vessel shall join a commanding officer who is entitled to a salute on Sunday, it shall be fired on Monday immediately after hoisting the colors.
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