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The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. states of Louisiana and Mississippi. It is considered by some to mark the southern boundary of what is called the Mississippi Delta, a broad floodplain that was cultivated for cotton plantations before the American Civil War. It has continued to be devoted to large-scale agriculture.
90°53′50″W / 32.33556°N 90.89722°W / 32.33556; -90.89722 The YazooRiver is a river in the U.S. states of Louisiana and Mississippi. It is considered...
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army, under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, would advance to the YazooRiver and attempt to reach Vicksburg from the northeast, while Grant took the...
The Sunflower River (also known as the Big Sunflower River) is one of the main tributaries of the YazooRiver in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is...
Arkansas; the Arkansas River, joining the Mississippi at Arkansas Post; the Big Black River in Mississippi; and the YazooRiver, meeting the Mississippi...
tribe, the Yazoo Indians. The Choctaw word is translated to "River of Death" because of the strong flows under its bank full stage. YazooRiver runs parallel...
portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoorivers. The region has been called "The Most Southern Place on Earth" ("Southern"...
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joins the Yalobusha River to form the YazooRiver, which ultimately meets the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The river is navigable for about...
The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a massive real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia...
The Yazoo were a tribe of the Native American Tunica people historically located along the lower course of the YazooRiver in an area now known as the...
as a route from the Mississippi River to the YazooRiver. Once on the Yazoo, the Army would be able to cross the river unopposed and thus achieve their...
the Gulf Coast. Mississippi River Big Black River Pascagoula River Pearl River Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway YazooRiver Arkabutla Lake 19,550 acres (79...
River, Pearl River, Pascagoula River and the Tombigbee River, along with their main tributaries: the Tallahatchie River, YazooRiver, Big Black River...
Mississippi River to the Atlanta campaign. To maintain communications, it was to protect the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Coates' expedition moved up the Yazoo River...
Union divisions under Sherman disembarked at Johnson's Plantation on the YazooRiver to approach the Vicksburg defenses from the northeast while a fourth...
dozens up the YazooRiver. Grant could now receive supplies more directly than by the previous route, which ran through Louisiana, over the river crossing...
Yazoo Clay is a clay geologic formation in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. It was named after a bluff along the YazooRiver at Yazoo City, Mississippi...
Yalobusha River is a river, 165 miles (266 km) long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the YazooRiver, via...
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