How was nathen Forrest wounded during the civil war?

Answer 1

He was shot by one of his own men, on the town square of Columbia, Tennessee.

Forrest had ordered an artillery lieutenant relieved of his command, for what Forrest believed to be cowardice. The lieutenant found Forrest on the square, and tried to talk him out of this decision. Forrest was trimming his fingernails with a pocketknife when the conversation began. During the conversation, Forrest folded up his pocketknife and put it in his pocket, and told the lieutenant his decision was final.

The lieutenant drew his pistol and shot Forrest in the chest. Before he could fire again Forrest grabbed his gun arm and clamped it under his own, and pulled his pocketknife back out, opened it with his teeth, and stabbed the lieutenant in the stomach. Then they staggered apart.

Forrest was taken in a store on the square and laid out on the counter, and a doctor was sent for. The doctor arrived and pronounced Forrest's wound fatal. Bellowing "Nobody kills me and lives to tell it" Forrest got up off the counter, staggered outside and took a pistol off somebody's saddle holster on a horse, and tracked the lieutenant by the blood trail to an empty lot on the corner where he had fallen. Forrest was talked out of killing the lieutenant on the spot.

Forrest of course recovered. Before the lieutenant died of his stab wound, they had a reunion and Forrest forgave him.

Forrest was also shot in the spine at Shiloh. He had charged a brigade of Yankees alone, not realizing the rest of his men weren't following. He emptied his pistols and drew his sword, trying to slash his way free, when he was shot at point-blank range. He snatched up a Yankee and held him behind him on the horse to make his getaway. The Yankee was riddled. A week later the bullet was removed, without anesthesia, other than perhaps a few stiff drinks.