Named Entity Results, Yazoo River (United States)

Doc. 72.-destruction of the Cairo. Letter from Lieutenant Alford. Off the mouth of the Yazoo, December 12. yesterday we were ordered up the Yazoo again, and were accompanied by the gunboats Signal, Pittsburgh, Cairo, and ram Queen of the West. We hove anchor at six in the morning and got under way. Our boat was in the advance. We had proceeded about eighteen miles unmolested, when in rounding a point we descried a skiff containing a white man and a negro. We fired a shot and brought them about and took them aboard. We examined them, and from the negro we got the information that the rebels had placed a large number of torpedoes and infernal machines all along up the Yazoo River to their battery on Drumgool's Bluff. Accordingly we kept a bright look-out, and at half-past 11 A. M. discovered one. We were nearly on it before we saw it. We backed down-stream and lowered our cutter to examine, and found an inch-line made fast to a large root on the bank on the left-ha

d the fleet started for its destined port, which it reached on the banks of the Yazoo about noon the same day. Many years ago, about eight miles below the mouth of the Yazoo the Mississippi cut a new channel for itself across a bend, coming into the main channel again just above Vicksburgh. The Yazoo followed the old channel, ahe appearance of things, bid fair to continue for an indefinite period. The Yazoo River was low and the banks steep and about thirty feet high. Along the edge of t By three o'clock in the afternoon the last boat passed out at the mouth of the Yazoo, where just one week before it had sailed in so triumphantly. The expedition wlting foe in undisputed possession of the battle-ground. At the mouth of the Yazoo the fleet was met by the steamer Tigress, having on board General McCkernand. Gield. The brigade disembarked on the twenty-sixth, on the south bank of the Yazoo River, and made a reconnoissance through a belt of woods to Mrs. Lake's plantation

Doc. 125.-destruction of the Indianola. Rear-Admiral Porter's despatch. U. S. Mississippi Squadron, Yazoo River, March 10, via Memphis and Louisville, March 13th. The Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: I have been pretty well assured for some time past that the Indianola had been blown up, in consequence of the appearance of a wooden imitation mortar, which the enemy sunk with their batteries. The mortar was a valuable aid to us. It forced away the Queen of the West, and , and our authorities immediately order a boat that would have been worth a small army to us to be blown up. D. D. Porter, Acting Rear-Admiral Commanding Mississippi Squadron. Rear-Admiral Porter's letter. U. S. Mississippi Squadron, Yazoo River, Thursday, February 26, 1863. my dear----: We are all in quite a state of excitement here, in consequence of the appearance of the ram Queen of the West at Warrenton, seven miles below Vicksburgh, with the rebel flag flying. She was discov

y the rebels, and had gathered a large load of the Southern sovereign, but while she was stopping to wood up, one of our gunboats hove in sight, and as the cotton-boat could not escape she was set on fire, and her rich cargo, estimated to be upward of three thousand bales, was abandoned to the flames. About three miles below our troops, the rebels had built a fort, and placed a raft in the river. The fort is in a very strong position, in the neck of a bend made by the Tallahatchie and Yazoo rivers. The fort is unapproachable by the troops, on account of the overflow of the rivers, and the contest thus far has been a duel of cannon. On the eleventh, the Chillicothe was ordered to engage the rebels, and her appearance was the signal for a brisk fire from them, but without eliciting any reply from the gunboat, which steamed steadily to her position, within eight hundred yards, when, throwing open the bow-ports of her turrets, she launched forth two tremendous shots, which for a mo

ote to abolish. Yet so it happened, last week. The expedition consisted of the Louisville, Mound City, Carondelet, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, iron-clad turtles; four mortar-boats, the ram Price, and mosquito Linden, and the infantry of the Second division of the Fifteenth army corps, Gen. David Stuart's, except the Fifty-fifth Illinois, and a section of Wood's battery, Lieut. Mc<*>agg; the transports Silver Wave, Diligent, Eagle, Champion, Pocahontas, and Monongahela. Going up the Yazoo River seven miles, thence up Steele's Bayou twelve miles, the fleet came to Muddy Bayou, which runs across from the Mississippi into Steele's. At this point the troops came over on floating bridges and embarked. Hence they were transported up Steele's and Black Bayou about twenty miles, to Hill's plantation, and marched thence twenty-one miles on a levee north along Deer Creek, nearly to Rolling Fork. It was proposed at that point to embark the troops again on transports and proceed on that c

Doc. 154.-expedition up the Yazoo River, its Journal and history. near Vicksburgh, Monday, March 31, 1863. The return of all the transports and gunboats of Admiral Porter's naval and military expedition up the Yazoo River, to their former rendezvous in and near the mouth of the Yazoo, will have reached you by telegraph, Yazoo River, to their former rendezvous in and near the mouth of the Yazoo, will have reached you by telegraph, and the whole affair will have passed into history, perhaps before this is seen by the readers of the Times. The rebels undoubtedly take great credit to themselves for having defeated the expedition; and the withdrawal of our gunboats and troops will be trumpeted as another glorious victory. It is true the prime object of the expeYazoo, will have reached you by telegraph, and the whole affair will have passed into history, perhaps before this is seen by the readers of the Times. The rebels undoubtedly take great credit to themselves for having defeated the expedition; and the withdrawal of our gunboats and troops will be trumpeted as another glorious victory. It is true the prime object of the expedition — which was understood to be the taking of Yazoo City; the capture of the transports and gunboats, if any were found, and the getting into position to attack Haines's Bluff from above, was not accomplished, owing to the delay arising from unexpected obstacles in Black Bayou. There was some hard fighting both by the land for