Big Black River

American  

noun

1. a river in N central Mississippi, flowing SW to the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. 330 miles (531 km) long.

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Example Sentences

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

By the 25th nearly all of the regiment had rendezvoused on the west side of the Big Black River, near the railroad.

From History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry by Stees, Charles J.

A second battle was fought at Big Black River, and then, on the eighteenth of May, the victorious Union army surrounded Vicksburg, and the siege was begun.

From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by Ridpath, John Clark

The "Big Black River" is not so very "big" after all.

From American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States by Davies, Ebenezer

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