Big Black River
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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His throttle hand urged the Cannonball south along Mississippi's Big Black River at 75 m.p.h. while Casey exulted in its power.
From Time Magazine Archive
It adds, that they will be forced to retire to the Big Black River, for want of water.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
We came on the 12th of February to the Grand Gulph and "Big Black River."
From American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States by Davies, Ebenezer
Grant pursued without a moment's delay, and came up with the rear guard at Big Black River.
From Hero Tales from American History by Roosevelt, Theodore
On the sixteenth he won the stubborn fight of Champion's Hill, on the seventeenth he won again at Big Black River, and on the eighteenth he appeared before the lines of Vicksburg.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry
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