To add a little detail to Piratical Bob's comments about General Forrest:
The good general and his troopers had stopped at a farm to water their horses and take a break when the general noticed a grinding wheel, the kind that is operated by a foot treadle, and sat down to sharpen his sword. As he was grinding away, a young captain approached and said, "Sir, with all due respect, we were taught at West Point that a gentleman never sharpens his sword." Forrest continued his task and without looking up replied, "Good!"
During the war Forrest killed 27 men in hand to hand combat not counting the young man he killed with his pocket knife. He had 26 horses shot from under him. In one particularly difficult encounter in which he suffered some painful wounds but slew his opponent, he remarked to the unit surgeon that had his adversary given him the point instead of the slash, he would be a dead man.
In the incident wherein Forrest was shot by one of his own officers that he had removed from command, Forrest was shot in his hotel room. The pistol used was a single shot. After firing the officer ran from the room, down the staircase, across the town square and into a shop with Forrent, though badly wounded, in hot pursuit. Forrest caught him in the shop and went to work with his pocket knife before collapsing. After he was attended by the doctor, Forrest was asked why he had chased the young soldier being grievously wounded as he was and certainly the man would have been caught and hanged anyway, Forrest answered, "I ain't letting no sonofabitch kill me without killing him back."
Forrest had suffered a solid hit in the torso from the shooting. The young man had multiple stabs wounds. Both were in critically bad shape. They were placed on cots in the same back room at the doctor's office where the doc could look after both at the same time. When they were able to speak, the young officer apologized to Forrest for shooting him. Forrest said he was sorry too. Forrest recovered. The young man did not. Sometimes you can get away with bringing a knife to a gun fight. Both Forrest and Jim Bowie did.
Forrest rose from private to lt. general (three stars). There were no four star generals in the confederacy. They don't make generals like him anymore.