On the morning of September 21, following the Confederate victory in the battle, Forrest rode towards Chattanooga with four hundred men and found that the Union army was still in chaos he urged Bragg to attack the city immediately but Bragg instead settled in for a siege of the Union garrison. Hill's corps during the Battle of Chickamauga, earning praise from Hill. During the early stages of the Chickamauga Campaign, Forrest's corps served on the army's right as a rear guard during the retreat from Chattanooga, while Forrest himself was wounded during the fighting. On September 3, Braxton Bragg, commander of the Army of Tennessee, gave Forrest the division of John Pegram and placed him in command of all the cavalry north of Chattanooga. Armstrong but Jackson's division was soon sent to Mississippi, leaving Forrest with only Armstrong's division. The corps initially consisted of the divisions of William H. In May 1863, Nathan Bedford Forrest was given the cavalry command of Earl Van Dorn, who had recently been murdered. At first serving as part of the Army of Tennessee, both Forrest and the corps were then transferred to northern Mississippi and often launched independent raids into Union occupied western and central Tennessee. Formed during the summer of 1862, it took part in the various battles in the Western Theater during the second half of the war. Forrest's Cavalry Corps was part of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and commanded by Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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