... the Mississippi to Warrenton, six miles below. The Yazoo River leaves the high land a short distance below Haines' [or Haynes'] Bluff and empties into the Mississippi nine miles above Vicksburg. Vicksburg is built on this high land where the Mississippi washes the base of the hill. Haines' Bluff, eleven miles from Vicksburg, on the Yazoo River, was strongly fortified. The whole distance from there...