In Tennessee the State also imposed fines upon *wear wearers of the uniform.

In the vicinity of military posts, buttons and marks of rank were usually ordered removed and the gray clothes dyed with some other color.

General Lee, for example, had the buttons on his coat covered with cloth.

But frequently the Federal commander, after issuing the orders, paid no more attention to the matter and such conflicts as arose on account of the uniform were usually caused by officious enlisted men and the Negro troops.

Whitelaw Reid relates the following incident: "Nothing was more touching, in all that I saw in Savannah, than the almost painful effort of the rebels, from generals down to privates, to conduct themselves so as to evince respect for our soldiers, and to bring no severer punishment upon the city than it had already received.
There was a brutal scene at the hotel, where a drunken sergeant, with a pair of tailor's shears, insisted on cutting the buttons from the uniform of an elegant gray-headed old brigadier, who had just come in from Johnston's army; but he bore himself modestly and very handsomely through it.