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Which military unit did Nathan Bedford Forrest raise and supply early in the Civil War?
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Early in the American Civil War, at the request of the governor of Tennessee, Nathan Bedford Forrest raised and supplied a cavalry unit, for which he was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel.1