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While some of the Mississippians would be carrying the U.S. Army’s latest weapon, not all were satisfied with it. One of them described the M1855 rifle in the Yazoo Democrat, on August 4, 1860: The Bayonet Rifle.—We have had the pleasure of examining a sample of the rifles with bayonets, ordered by our State for the volunteer militia. ................
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