Spencer rifle

The Spencer rifle is a lever action rifle that appears in both The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided and History Civil War: Secret Missions. It is one of the two lever action rifles that appeared in the game, the other is the Henry rifle.

Features
The Spencer is a combination of a lever action mechanism and a falling block action. It has a 7-round tube magazine located in the butt of the rifle.

Unlike the Henry rifle, the user needs to manually cock the rifle before or after each cocking of the lever. It also lacks the lever handle that the Henry has, making the Spencer even slower to operate. An advantage of it is that it has a bigger round than the Henry (although both guns kill between one to two shots in the games) and can be reloaded faster using a tube speedloader (although the animation for it is not included).

Real life
Although slower in rate of fire than the Henry, the Spencer was more robust and had less parts to manufacture, which prompted the government to issue Spencers than Henrys instead.

Abraham Lincoln personally witnessed the Spencer in a demonstration and was impressed. Although he issued all units of the Union to adopt the rifle, it only became popular to cavalry units and skirmishers. It was the primary firearm issued to the Blazer's Scouts.