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This is just a guess, but, I would say that the word "Colt" was a generic term for handgun in those days just like "Kleenex" is for facial tissue today - much to the irritation of their competitors, I might add.
Thus, anything that fit a revolver was obviously a Colt cartridge. Somebody in the army noticed they started making the cartridges shorter. It was obviously a "Short Colt" while the older round was dubbed the "Long Colt."
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