Bayou

Examples

• Steel's Bayou empties into the Yazoo River between Haines' Bluff and its mouth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Some miles from New Carthage the levee to Bayou Vidal was broken in several places, overflowing the roads for the distance of two miles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• With this we were able to explore the lake and bayou as far as cleared. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The bayou was grown up with timber, which the enemy had felled into the ditch. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• At the upper end of the bayou there was a strip of uncleared land which afforded a cover for a portion of our men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The troops were set to work at once to construct a bridge across the South Fork of the Bayou Pierre. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The 20th and 21st were spent in strengthening our position and in making roads in rear of the army, from Yazoo River or Chickasaw Bayou. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sherman at once returned through Black Bayou in a canoe, and passed on until he met a steamer, with the last of the reinforcements he had, coming up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Bayou Baxter, as it reaches lower land, begins to spread out and disappears entirely in a cypress swamp before it reaches the Macon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A bayou runs irregularly across this low land, the bottom of which, however, is above the surface of the Big Black at ordinary stages. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Two of his brigades were sent up the bayou to find a crossing and reach the North Fork to repair the bridge there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sherman went back, at the request of the admiral, to clear out Black Bayou and to hurry up reinforcements, which were far behind. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is six miles long and has its outlet through Bayou Baxter, Bayou Macon, and the Tensas, Washita and Red Rivers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They tried to force their way through Black Bayou with their steamer, but, finding it slow and tedious work, debarked and pushed forward on foot. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Bayous Baxter and Macon are narrow and tortuous, and the banks are covered with dense forests overhanging the channel. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The bayous were soon filled and much of the country was overflowed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Four bridges had to be built across bayous, two of them each over six hundred feet long, making about two thousand feet of bridging in all. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The intervening land is cut up by bayous filled from the river in high water--many of them navigable for steamers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The distance would probably be greater by the tortuous bayous through which this new route would carry us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• North of the Yazoo was all a marsh, heavily timbered, cut up with bayous, and much overflowed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The effort to make a waterway through Lake Providence and the connecting bayous was abandoned as wholly impracticable about the same time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Three large bayous had to be crossed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Editor: Sidney