Forrest Now Heavy Contractor (1866)
General N. B. FORREST has become a heavy contractor on the Memphis and Little Rock railroad. He left Memphis the other day with over two hundred hands, all of whom are in his employ. Work on the road beyond Madison will be pushed rapidly ahead, and the road completed to the capitol of Arkansas at an early day.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 17 Nov. 1866, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.