The M1841 Mississippi rifle is a muzzle loading percussion rifle used in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.
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Famous quotes containing the words mississippi and/or rifle:
“Listen, my friend, I’ve just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.”
—Patrick Buchanan (b. 1938)
“Many times man lives and dies
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)