Springfield rifle

The Springfield rifle is a muzzle-loading rifle in The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided and History Channel's Civil War: The Game - Great Battles.

Features
The rifle is a muzzle-loading percussion firearm which meant that the gunpowder and the ball has to be rammed manually into the barrel and a percussion cap installed primer before a soldier can use it. All models are issued with a bayonet. The rifle fires a large minie ball that can kill an enemy almost always with one shot.

A historical inaccuracy can be seen in The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided since the player does not need to put a percussion cap on it to use. It only takes a few seconds to reload it, while in reality a soldier can only reload and fire the rifle 3 times in a minute.

It is also the primary rifle not only for the Union but also the Confederates but in reality the former adopted the British Enfield rifle instead.