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	Yazoo River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi and the second longest tributary of the Mississippi River that flows into that river from the east (the longest is the Ohio River).
		The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 in reference to a Native American tribe living near the river's mouth.
		The river is 188 miles long and is formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie River and the Yalobusha River in Greenwood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yazoo_River (281 words)

	Tallahatchie River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tallahatchie River flows from Tippah County, Mississippi to Leflore County, Mississippi, where it joins the Yalobusha River to form the Yazoo River.
		Though best known from the fictional song (and movie) Ode to Billy Joe, which has the refrain the day that Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie River bridge, the river has historical significance due to the lynching of Emmett Till, an African-American youth who was badly beaten, shot, and sunk in the river.
		This event is mentioned in another song, "Freedom Highway," by the Staple Singers, in the lines, "Found dead people in the forests, Tallahatchie River and lakes/Whole world is wondering, what's wrong with the United States?"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tallahatchie_River (156 words)

	Tallahatchie River -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		river rising in Tippah county, Mississippi, U.S., and flowing 230 miles (370 km) west and then south to join the Yalobusha River just north of Greenwood in Leflore county to form the Yazoo River.
		The principal tributary of the Paraná River, the Paraguay is the fifth largest river in South America.
		One of the major rivers of Central Africa, the Ubangi is the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo, or Zaire, River.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9071059 (782 words)

	Tallahatchie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A river rising in Tippah County, Miss., and flowing some 300 miles southwest to converge with the Yalobusha and form the Yazoo.
		Tallahatchie is also the name of a county in northwestern Mississippi.
		Renamed Tallahatchie on 26 January and designated "tinclad gunboat no. 46," the sidewheeler was held at Cincinnati for a fortnight by ice in the Ohio River before she could be moved downstream to Cairo, Ill., to be fitted out and lightly armored.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/gunboats/tallahat.htm (524 words)

	Tallahatchie
		A river rising in Tippah County, Miss., and flowing some 300 miles southwest to converge with the Yalo-busha and form the Yazoo.
		Renamed Tallahatchie on 26 January and designated "tinclad gunboat no. 46," the sidewheeler was held at Cincinnati for a fortnight by ice in the Ohio River before she could be moved downstream to Cairo, 111., to be fitted out and lightly armored.
		Now Porter needed help, and Tallahatchie ascended the Mississippi and entered the Red River which she patrolled from Fort De Russy to the mouth of the Black River to protect the Mississippi Squadron's waterborne communications.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t1/tallahatchie.htm (540 words)

	WFotW ~ Faulkner Glossary: "Y"
		The region of Mississippi known as the Delta is actually the common floodplain of the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers.
		It is bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River (an actual river in Mississippi) and its southern boundary is the Yoknapatawpha River.
		In As I Lay Dying, the river flooded, washing several bridges out, so Anse Bundren and his family were initially unable to cross the river as they were trying to transport the body of Addie Bundren to Jefferson for burial.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/glossaryy.html (620 words)

	Assembling DEM Files for Watershed Analysis
		The Delta is the ancestral floodplain of the Mississippi River and is an extremely low relief area that has had a large portion of its natural streams modified by channelization.
		The model is being used to characterize the surface hydrology and to delineate subbasins and small watersheds in the Little Tallahatchie River basin.
		Once all the quadrangles needed for the Little Tallahatchie River basin were imported, and elevation units converted when necessary, the next step was combining them into a single, continuous DEM of the basin and reprojecting the DEM into a custom projection for Mississippi.
	www.esri.com /news/arcuser/0701/moredem.html (2047 words)

	WFotW ~ Faulkner Glossary: "T"
		T.P.: See Gibson, T.P. Tallahatchie River: An actual river in Lafayette County, Mississippi (where Faulkner lived), and the northern border of Yoknapatawpha County.
		On the banks of the Tallahatchie, Wash Jones established a fishing camp in the mid-1800s; it was here that Jones killed Thomas Sutpen in 1869.
		He helped them in their attempt to cross the flood-swollen Yoknapatawpha River, and later, after the attempt failed, he helped dive underwater to retrieve Cash's tools, which were swept away when the wagon overturned.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/glossaryt.html (588 words)

	MSGenWeb
		Tallahatchie County was organized December 23, 1833, from territory acquired by the United States from the Choctaw tribe of Indians, at the treaty of Dancing Rabbit in 1830.
		Tallahatchie County is one of the rich and prosperous counties of the State and was settled early in the ‘30s by an excellent body of emigrants, from the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia and the Carolinas, and the older part of Mississippi.
		According to the 1920 census figures, Tallahatchie County stands sixth among her sister counties as a producer of cotton.
	www.rootsweb.com /~msgenweb/county-hist/tallahatchie.htm (968 words)

	DM: Second stage of Tallahatchie River project gets go ahead
		A once thriving section of Little Tallahatchie River is now a 23-mile-long shiftless, partly dried-up body of water known as the old Little Tallahatchie riverbed.
		Renee Turner, study manager of the little Tallahatchie re-river project and employee of the Corps of Engineers' Planning Division, said it was likely the corps had made a mistake in diverting the creeks into the channel back in 1930.
		Kevin Pigott, a graduate student in biology, is currently studying the wetland trees along the old section of the Little Tallahatchie River.
	www.olemiss.edu /news/dm/archives/98/9802/980226/980226N3project.HTML (1221 words)

	Fort Pemberton
		The Tallahatchie river runs for a short distance here parallel with the Yazoo, and these forts were built as defenses by the Confederates against the Federals.
		An embankment was thrown up from one river to the other, while another embankment was thrown up below on the Yazoo river to prevent the Federals from flanking the fort, as they had cut a trail through the dense swamp with the intention of flanking Fort Pemberton, but, the water rising, their purpose was thwarted.
		He says that holes were bored to quite a number in her hull and stopped up with pegs, one man being in charge of two pegs, that at a given signal each man drew the pegs he had in charge, and this historic boat soon sank to the bottom of the Tallahatchie river.
	www.civilwaralbum.com /vicksburg/fort_pemberton_famous.htm (1161 words)

	Proceedings of the second international symposium on the management of large rivers for fisheries: Volume II
		The Yazoo River Basin (Mississippi, United States) is a floodplain river ecosystem integrating six tributary rivers that course through the interior alluvial plain of the Mississippi River.
		Cultural connections to the rivers are strongest with respect to fishing in rivers (or sections of rivers) that are in advanced stages of recovery from historical flood control activities.
		Partitioning of the fisheries within the rural sub-culture of river people renders main river channels as the domain of fishers in higher economic strata while floodplain backwaters are generally the domain of fishers in lower economic strata.
	www.fao.org /docrep/007/ad526e/ad526e0b.htm (5524 words)

	Chapter 2, Grant's Mississippi Central Railroad Campaign... - History of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry
		The regiment was camped alongside several other regiments guarding a river crossing known as "the Mouth of the Tippa." The Tippa River emptied into the Tallahatchie at this point.
		Grant reached the Holly Springs and Waterford area on the 29th and began to shell the Confederates south of the Tallahatchie River.
		On the 3rd the Rebels bivouacked near Springdale south of the Yocona River.
	www.angelfire.com /ms2/33Miss/chapter2.htm (5734 words)

	Whitetail deer made impressive comeback
		The story told of how Tallahatchie County is now producing large numbers of deer and bagging some of the nicest heads in the state.
		I recall that one of the trophies was taken in the bottomland that encompasses Tallahatchie River, and one of them came from the hill portion in near the hamlet of Enid, Miss.
		I well recall that the first wild deer I ever saw was in the wooded region along Tallahatchie River proper in the neighborhood of Black Bayou and in the middle of the famous floodplain that was noted all over the country for its duck hunting.
	deltafarmpress.com /mag/farming_whitetail_deer_made (749 words)

	Part II:
		The bluffs overlooking the Yalobusha River were the strongest natural defense point between Corinth and Vicksburg and the Confederate generals planned to mass their armies at this point and prepare for a conflict that both sides thought would rival Shiloh.
		Colonel Mizner of the 3rd Michigan engaged CSA forces on the hills northwest near the rail line, while the 7th Kansas and 4th Illinois pushed down the main road to the center.
		The skirmishing continued right to the town square where the Rebels made a stand before Federal re-enforcements were called in and drove them south toward the Yokona River.
	www.angelfire.com /ms2/grantshilohvicksburg/GrantMovesSouth.html (1834 words)

	Tolerance.org: THE ROAD TO MONEY: Emmett Till Remembered
		Rising from southern Tippah County, in far-north Mississippi, the Tallahatchie River stretches 230 miles west and south into the Delta.
		I know some rivers well, in the West, know the feel of their banks, the swiftness of their current, even where the hidden rocks lie.
		The Tallahatchie River cradled Till, kept him secret for a few days, before a fisherman found him, rising up for the whole world to see.
	www.tolerance.org /news/article_tol.jsp?id=1274 (879 words)

	Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lake George, a backwater of the Big Sunflower River (Yazoo River drainage) is an important spawning area for fishes, but is dewatered during low river stages in the summer.
		Models relating river stage to larval fish densities indicated that substantial benefits would result from a fixed-crest weir that would pool water during this critical period.
		Natural flows in the old river channel have been greatly reduced and are affected by reverse flows during hydroelectric operations.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/Organizations/SFC/regionalreports/R4SC1999.htm (3261 words)

	THE GHOST TOWNS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER by Dr. Carl Edwin Lindgren
		Such are the non-fictitious ghost towns of William Faulkner's mystical Yoknapatawpha County -- which, by tradition, is bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River, and to the South by the Yocona (patawpha) River.
		The following geographic description is provided concerning these deeds of land: "`a stake in the ravine near the river Tallahatchie' as a west boundary and near the same point a line `southwestwardly meandering the high bluff and along the margin thereof near the slue.'" (Hastings, 1990).
		Because of the town's proximity to the Tallahatchie River, Panola prospered and grew.
	users.panola.com /AAghS/ARTICLES/FAULKNER.html (3844 words)

	Booknotes Transcript
		And this story really would have ended at that point, as so many other lynchings had ended throughout history, except for the courage of his mother and several key decisions that she made that kept this story alive and shared it with the entire country.
		And what it shows is the condition that Emmett was returned to his mother in, after being in the Tallahatchie River for several days.
		And his body was discovered only a few days later, when another teenager was out in the river fishing, and one of Emmett`s legs had risen to the top and was seen.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript/index_print.asp?ProgramID=1777 (9281 words)

	Flood Prevention Project Stories\|Programs \| NRCS
		The principal objective is to reduce erosion and flood and sediment damage to farmland and county roads.
		Protection is needed on 112,000 acres along the main stem of the river.
		In the Washita River watershed about 84 percent of the farmers and ranchers have developed a soil conservation plan with their local soil conservation district, and many of the needed soil conservation practices have been applied.
	www.nrcs.usda.gov /programs/watershed/pl534_stories.html (1613 words)

	MDEQ - Mississippi Fish Tissue Advisories and Commercial Fishing Bans August 2001
		Yocona River from Enid Reservoir downstream to the confluence with the Tallahatchie River
		Grenada Lake and Yalobusha River from the dam downstream to Holcomb
		Mississippi Delta-all waters from the mainline Mississippi River Levee on the West to the Bluff
	www.deq.state.ms.us /MDEQ.nsf/page/FS_Fish_Tissue?OpenDocument (325 words)

	FBI exhumes body of Emmett Till for clues - Boston.com - Nation - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nearly 50 years after Emmett Till's mutilated body was found in a Mississippi river, federal investigators Wednesday unearthed the Chicago teen's casket in hopes of finding clues to a murder that helped kindle the civil rights movement.
		Till's body was found by fishermen in the Tallahatchie River in August 1955, three days after he was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Miss., reportedly for whistling at a white woman.
		An undated photo shows Emmett Till, a 14-year-old raised in Chicago, who was found murdered in 1955 in the Tallahatchie River near the Delta community of Money, Mississippi, after being abducted from his uncle's home.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/06/01/fbi_to_begin_exhumation_of_emmett_till (546 words)

	Newhouse A1
		The body would be identified as that of Emmett Till, a fl teenager who had been shot in the head and dumped in the river for whistling at a white woman.
		After pulling Till's remains from the river, Garrett returned to the Century Funeral Home in nearby Greenwood to find crowds of local fl residents who had heard about Till's murder gathered in the street to bear witness to a crime that appalled the nation and helped spark the civil rights movement.
		As investigators fan out across the Mississippi Delta counties of Leflore and Tallahatchie, they will have to struggle to win the cooperation of an older generation of African-Americans still haunted by the violent history of racial oppression in the Deep South.
	www.newhousenews.com /archive/ritea061804.html (1595 words)

	Scott Gutzke's History of the 33rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
		They were attached to the Provisional Division under General Kilby Smith and known as the "Red River Division." They proceeded to the mouth of the Red River and ascended it to Simmsport on the Atchafalaya.
		The rebel attack was repulsed and the regiment encamped at Cane River.
		They ascended the Mississippi River to St. Louis, where the men were supplied with clothing and equipment for a campaign up the Missouri River.
	www.batteryb.com /webmaster/33rdWIVI.html (3845 words)

	USS Tallahatchie
		Acquired by Rear Admiral David D. Porter in response to a request from Commodore Henry H. Bell for light draft gunboats to strengthen United States naval forces in the Gulf of Mexico, Tallahatohie headed down the Mississippi on 9 March 1864.
		She served with this force for the duration of hostilities, operating off the passes of the Mississippi and in Mississippi Sound and Lake Pontehartrain.
		On 15 September 1864, while Tallahatohie was operating on the lake, her commanding officer, Acting Master J. Lennekin, received information warning him that smugglers would attempt to bring out contraband cotton under cover of darkness.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/gunboat/tallahatchie.html (491 words)

	American Experience \| The Murder of Emmett Till \| Transcript
		Stock footage of Tallahatchie River w/commentary: This is the muddy back woods Tallahatchie River where a weighted body was found alleged to be that of young Emmett Till.
		John Herbers, Journalist: The atmosphere among whites in Tallahatchie county and other the whole surrounding area was one of absolute scorn at the fact that these men were being put on trial for their lives.
		In their cross-examination, Bryant and Milam's attorneys peppered her with hostile questions, and then presented the main argument for the defense: The corpse pulled from the Tallahatchie River was not Emmett Till.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/till/filmmore/pt.html (6319 words)

	Holcomb, Mississippi - Geographical guideposts to history
		County takes its name from the Tallahatchie River, meaning river of rocks.
		County gets its name from the Yalobusha River, whose name means place of the tadpoles.
		Hatchie was another name for a river or creek, as in Tallahatchie River.
	www.holcomb.org /names (506 words)

	2003 Federal Register, 68 FR 70520; Centralized Library: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - FR Doc 03-31165
		Tallahatchie National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1990, is located in Grenada and Tallahatchie Counties, Mississippi.
		Coldwater River National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1991, is located in Tallahatchie and Quitman Counties, Mississippi.
		It consists of 2,202 acres, much of which is inaccessible during the winter months due to backwater flooding of the Tallahatchie River.
	www.fws.gov /policy/library/03-31165.html (489 words)

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