twelfth century Crusading knight than to an eighteenth century English country squire. Today, we tend to associate casual personal violence with the lower classes. A "tough neighborhood" is more or less synonymous with a poor neighborhood. In the prewar South, however, personal violence was very much a part of upper class life. Duelling was an integral part of the code of "polite" society, and a gentleman was expected to defend his honor with fists, blade, or gun.7 Forrest is not known to have engaged in a formal duel, but during the war he shot in his tent a junior officer, Andrew Wills Gould, with whom he quarrelled. Disgusted with the man's poor performance, Forrest ordered Gould transferred, which Gould evidently took as a slight to his own honor. Gould went to protest to Forrest. By Forrest's account, Gould drew a gun and shot him, while Forrest stabbed Gould in self defense. Eyewitnesses, however, claimed that Forrest ________
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