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The New York Times1y
Strategy on the Yazoo.
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 ...
Tennessean10y
Mispronouncing Yazoo doesn't mean you've had too many
where the Yazoo River joins the Mississippi River. He also had a black Labrador retriever during his childhood named Yazoo. "It was one of those things that we just settled on the name really ...
The New York Times1y
OUR VICKSBURGH CORRESPONDENCE; The New Passage Into the Yazoo Above Haines' Bluff A Heavy Force Gone Through Capture of a Rebel Engineer Important Intelligence Thirty ...
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 ...
The Telegraph5y
80-pound invasive fish can frighten people by jumping into boats in Mississippi
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 ...
The Clarion-Ledger7y
Mississippi's Big Sunflower River named nation's 'most endangered' in 2018
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.