The story about Forrest picking up the Union soldier was a rear guard action at the Battle of Shilo. The Union soldier was in Sherman's command.

I don't recall him being wounded (the Union soldier) but Forrest was. He had a .58 musket, or rifled musket, shoved into his rib cage above his kidneys, and he was shot. It lifted him almost out of the saddle but he stayed on. Then while his horse went into berzerk mode and fought off union soldiers in every direction, bitting and kicking, Forrest had just enough of a clear mind and physical strength to reach down and grab a yankee soldier by his coat and with one arm throw him across the horses rear or up into the sitting position behind General Forrest(he may have only been a colonel then). Then putting spurs to his horse race toward his own lines, when he was out of yankee rifle range he through off his hapless passenger.

Forrest spent some time recovering from that wound that would have killed anybody else.

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David Upton