If you weren't wearing Gray, you didn't want to be around Forest's units regardless.
Very true . . . Lt. Gould was one of his own men. You ever heard that story? Gould was miffed over some supposed insult to his honor (which Forrest, never one of your romantic cavaliers, didn't give a rat's posterior about) and took a potshot at Forrest. They grappled, and Forrest opened his pocket knife with his teeth and killed the guy.
Forrest may have been a rough diamond, but he basically saved Rome GA (where most of my family was living at the time) so I owe him a debt of gratitude, possibly for being here at all.