 Twain's disdain for Scott is evident in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889), in which the main character repeatedly utters "great Scott" as an oath, and in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), where he names a sinking boat the "Walter Scott".John William De Forest, in "Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty" (1867) reports the exclamation as referring to Winfield Scott, general‑in‑chief of the U.S. Army from 1841 to 1861