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The Daily Dispatch: May 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], Independence. (search)
he river. Pearl river rises in the Northern central part of Mississippi, and flowing in a southerly direction past Jackson, a distance of 250 miles, passes through Lake Borgne into the Gulf of Mexico. Yazoo river is a deep, narrow, sluggish stream, 290 miles long from the junction of the Tallahatchie and Yallabusha (which form it) to its mouth on the Mississippi, about 12 miles above Vicksburg. In navigable qualities it is said to be unsurpassed by any river of its size. Yallabusha river rises a little to the westward of Okolona, and pursuing a westward course, unites at Leflore with the Tallahatchie and forms the Yazoo. In the winter it is navigable by steamboats to Grenada, on the New Orleans, Jackson, and Northern Railroad, a distance of 90 miles. Tallahatchie river rises in the extreme Northern middle part of the State, and running first a southeast, and then a southerly direction, forms a junction with the Yalabusha at Leflore, about 100 miles by land, north