[abishai]

"You have played the part of a d****d scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it! You may as well not issue any orders to me, for I will not obey them. . . I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life!"

Nathan Bedford Forrest to Braxton Bragg

[smokingfrog]

An unlettered man but brilliant commander Nathan Bedford Forrest was a fiery and complex personality. At Columbia, Tennessee, Forrest was attacked and shot by an angry subordinate. All who saw the event, including Forrest himself, thought the wound was mortal. In a fury of rage, Forrest pursued his attacker, a junior artillery officer, screaming, “Get out of my way! I am mortally wounded and will kill the man who has shot me!”! Shot in the abdomen, generally a fatal wound at that time, Forrest chased his attacker down and inflicted a mortal wound on the man, a young lieutenant.