To-morrow we are to meet at the armory, fall in, and march
in a body to Develin's clothing store, lower Broadway, there to be measured,
each and all of us, for a uniform suit, to consist of dark blue jacket and
sky-blue trousers. The jacket will have light blue shoulder-straps and cuffs,
and will be made as quickly as possible, and forwarded to us wherever we may
be. It is a thousand pities we cannot have them by Sunday, there will be such
an enormous crowd to see us off, and in our every-day rig we shall look
anything but soldierly.
SOURCE: Josiah Marshall Favill, The Diary of a Young Officer, p. 13-4
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