To speak as intelligently as possible, I should say that the Yazoo Pass runs through this lake. It enters it from the Mississippi at the northern end, and leaves it again at about its centre.

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This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Feb. 10: Yazoo Pass Expedition opens. Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, intent on keeping up the pressure on the enemy in the winter of 1863, ...

In "The Yazoo Blues," Junior Ray becomes a kind of historian about Ulysses S. Grant's failed Yazoo Pass expedition. What is he trying to discover? Junior Ray, in his old age there, decides that, ...

A Vicksburg dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette says the Federal Yazoo Pass expedition has captured twenty-six rebel steamboats, eighteen of which were destroyed.

Lt.-Col. Oran Perry of the 69th Indiana that trained in Richmond was part of Sherman’s Yazoo River expedition toward Vicksburg during the Civil War: ...

A budding, if aging, historian, he has developed an interest in the Civil War, most particularly, the Yazoo Pass expedition, the attempt to attack Vicksburg, by ship, from the northeast, by coming ...

In this volume he deals with Grant’s efforts to bypass Vicksburg by building canals and the Lake Providence, Yazoo Pass, and Steele’s Bayou operations in winter and early spring of 1863. In discussing ...