Yazoo

Examples

• Steel's Bayou empties into the Yazoo River between Haines' Bluff and its mouth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The rebel positions were on a bluff on the Yazoo River, some miles above its mouth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The rebels had obstructed the navigation of Yazoo Pass and the Coldwater by felling trees into them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sherman was on the right, and covered the high ground from where it overlooked the Yazoo as far south-east as his troops would extend. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Porter's fleet was on the east side of the river above the mouth of the Yazoo, entirely concealed from the enemy by the dense forests that intervened. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the 22d he met Quinby with a brigade at Yazoo Pass. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And to Blair I wrote: Their design is evidently to cross the Big Black and pass down the peninsula between the Big Black and Yazoo rivers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Government had seized the steamer chartered for Brazil, in order to bring troops from the Yazoo River to New Orleans to stop the rioting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sherman, and Admiral Porter with the fleet, had withdrawn from the Yazoo. 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.
• Haines' Bluff, eleven miles from Vicksburg, on the Yazoo River, was strongly fortified. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was sent to Mechanicsburg, some miles north-east of Haines' Bluff and about midway between the Big Black and the Yazoo. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My first anxiety was to secure a base of supplies on the Yazoo River above Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the morning of the 27th I ordered him to create a diversion by moving his corps up the Yazoo and threatening an attack on Haines' Bluff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Yazoo River leaves the high land a short distance below Haines' Bluff and empties into the Mississippi nine miles above Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Typist: Ludwig