The gunboat expedition down the Yazoo River was said to have for its chief object the assailment of Haines' Bluff, immediately north of Vicksburgh. Such may have been its primary purpose ...

Price, and accompanying the fleet. Passing from the Yazoo River, the gunboats slowly but steadily made their way to the left of Haines' Bluff some twenty miles through into Blackwater Bayou ...

USUALLY WE JUST THINK ABOUT PEOPLELIVING ALONG THE MISSISSIPPIRIVER DURING THIS FLOODING-- BUT THEMISSISSIPPI RIVER ACTUALLY BACKSUP TO THE YAZOO RIVER... ANDOTHER TRIBUTARIES-- SO WHEN ITFLOODS-- IT ...

A man and woman in a motorboat move quietly along the waters of the Yazoo River, straight down Chickasaw Street in Vicksburg. The only indication of a road is a line of telephone poles to the left.

Anglers and boaters in Mississippi’s Yazoo River Basin are being warned of ... according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The first sighting in Mississippi was in 1998, and silver carp have ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (WJTV) – When the Mississippi River gets high like it is now, water flowing down the Yazoo River can’t drain into the Mississippi. So, consequently, that backwater used to ...

gave Big Sunflower River the highest-risk designation because of the proposed Yazoo Backwater Area Pumping Plant, a multimillion-dollar project that would be paid for with taxpayers' money.