Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Conn.” in chapter 21 of Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1:
... troops in the field.
Knowing that the Mississippians would have no confidence in the old flint-lock muskets, I insisted on their being armed with the kind of rifle then recently made at New Haven, Conn. -the Whitney rifle.
From having been first used by the Mississippians, those rifles have always been known as the Mississippi rifles.
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