A graveside service with full military rites was held Aug. 10 at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Yazoo County.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes or Villains?] Reference

Instead he shows how he tried to find his own way, first in Yazoo City, then at the University of Texas, and finally in Manhattan.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 June 02 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

This case came out of the so-called Yazoo land scandals in Georgia.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference

No boundary can now be fixed to the region then known as the Yazoo country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Of Georgia] Reference

The Yazoo River is called Yazoo-okhinnah -- the River of Ancient Ruins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference

In 1970, James "Yazoo" Smith sued the NFL to shut down the draft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

"Yazoo" lands, and a provision was inserted looking towards payment of state troops with the money that these lands sold for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,] Reference

Below the Yazoo, on the west side, enters the Red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Yazoo river there was no question about the navigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

I determined to get into the Yazoo below Fort Pemberton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Admiral Porter remaining with his gunboats at the Yazoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Vicksburg and plying a gunboat or two on the Yazoo river.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland] Reference

Porter that McClernand had arrived at the mouth of the Yazoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Atlanta, Georgia from Last Session (Yazoo 1005), copyright notice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blind Willie McTell Lyrics] Reference

Vicksburg (up the Yazoo, if practicable), and out the Mississippi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

McClernand had arrived at the mouth of the Yazoo in the steamboat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Vicksburg; second, that at Lake Providence; and third, at the Yazoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Mississippi, or down the ridge between the Yazoo and Big Black; but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

We're reporting from outside the federal prison in Yazoo, Mississippi.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2007] Reference

Fort Pemberton extends from the Tallahatchie to the Yazoo at Greenwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

Sherman, and Admiral Porter with the fleet, had withdrawn from the Yazoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Arkansas, the Yazoo, and the Red, all find outlet through this one stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Hurt, Mississippi John: "Stack O 'Lee Blues" on 1928 sessions (Yazoo, 1065, 1990).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annotated "Stagger Lee"] Reference

Benton road, and gave us command of the peninsula between the Yazoo and Big Black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Already the gunboats have secured the Yazoo up for twenty-three miles, to a fort on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

After leaving the Yazoo, the Army of the Mississippi rendezvous was at Milliken's Bend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The miasmatic and poisonous water of the Yazoo next enters, about ten miles above Vicksburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

North of the Yazoo was all a marsh, heavily timbered, cut up with bayous, and much overflowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

It would be well if you could have two or three small boats suitable for navigating the Yazoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

More than half were disposed across the peninsula, between the Yazoo at Haines 'Bluff and the Big.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The Yazoo receives its supply from bayous and swamps, though it has several considerable tributaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Before reaching the Mississippi the Yazoo makes a bend to the south, approaching the rear of Vicksburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

Dumont who was stationed at Natchez and also on the Yazoo, describes the game and speaks of it as "La Crosse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Games : an historical research] Reference

A paper of May 15th, 1862, advising that Memphis and Vicksburgh should be strongly occupied and the Yazoo river watched.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland] Reference

English -- extent of American possessions, XIV; shipping, XVII; at English Turn, 47-51; on the Yazoo, 56; 57; on the Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

St. Peter's, the lower Mississippi and all its vast tributaries, the St. Francis, White river, Arkansas, Red river, and Yazoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

General A.J. Smith can reach his destined point, but this I can hardly expect; yet I want him to reach by the Yazoo a position near.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference