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1 Grant often rode out on the picket line, and once was on the eastern bank of Chattanooga creek, when a party of rebel soldiers were drawing water on the other side. They wore blue coats; and, thinking they were his own men, Grant asked them to whose command they belonged. They answered, ‘Longstreet's corps;’ whereupon Grant called out: ‘What are you doing in those coats, then?’ The rebels replied: ‘Oh! all our corps wear blue.’ This was a fact, which Grant had forgotten. The rebels then scrambled up on their own side of the stream, little thinking that they had been talking with the commander of the national army.
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