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Excited that #TheFalseCause officially releases this week. To mark the occasion I want to thank folks who made the book better. Historians often write alone but we don’t edit alone. Here’s a thread on some who helped make it a better book&their own work/1
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First I got to thank @HilaryGreen77 who was my first test reader & helped me realize what I was missing. She’s an amazing scholar. Read Educational Reconstruction if you haven’t. Her next book is going to blow apart the field of Civil War memory. /2 amazon.com/Educational-Re…
Next up, my last reader was @Ash_Fitzsimmons who’s own novels are amazing. She proof reads almost everything I write and makes my prose clearer and stronger. /3 amazon.com/gp/aw/d/006268…
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)
