A couple more notes to add.

...Forrest concieved of his fighters not as dragoons "who fought indifferently on foot or horseback," nor as cavalry who fought only mounted and with sabers. "We was mounted infantry," recalled J.P. Wilson, "armed with long guns."

J. P. Wilson, Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionaires. From River Run Red, Andrew Ward.

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Also I read where General Forrest dispatched a Yankee sharpshooter with an 1855 Harper's Ferry Rifle, with Maynard Primer system, borrowed from one of his troopers.

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Forrest's men were Infantry that used horses to get around with. Short of the first American mechanized infantry units. And he used artillery as assualt weapons (as at Brices Crossroads). I could go on and on.

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David Upton