In the meantime I was much exercised for the safety of Ross, not knowing that Quinby had been able to join him.

Reinforcements were of no use in a country covered with water, as they would have to remain on board of their transports.

Relief had to come from another quarter.

So I determined to get into the Yazoo below Fort Pemberton.
Steel's Bayou empties into the Yazoo River between Haines' Bluff and its mouth.

It is narrow, very tortuous, and fringed with a very heavy growth of timber, but it is deep.