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Today’s #SlaveRolls thread looks at Nathan Bedford Forrest. While indexing @Patriot_Pat1 found roll 2476 listing laborers employed by that Forrest's Cavalry in October 1863. (Patrick collaborated on the research but most of the interpretation below is my own so don't blame him) 
Both enslaved persons and free persons (probably whites) are listed. This roll is for a unit which are pretty rare in the #slaveroll. General Forrest owned all six of the slaves listed on the roll who were working as teamsters. So his unit was paying Forrest for their labor.
As always, we like to list the names of the enslaved persons found on the roll: Ike, Antony, Henry, Ben, and Dan. But let's talk a bit about Forrest's ties to slavery before the war (as Forrest and his monuments have been in the news lately. Let us see who these monuments honor)
