Sharps rifle

The Sharps rifle is a breech-loading rifle that appears in both The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided and History Civil War: Secret Missions.

Features
Like the Springfield rifle, the Sharps is a single-shot rifle. But unlike the former the Sharps is reloaded through the rear of the gun with paper cartridges which is drastically faster to reload and fire than the old muzzle-loading percussion system of the Springfield.

It has tremendous power, although it sometimes take 2 shots to kill an enemy. It has a knife bayonet attachment to it (although it can't be used in A Nation Divided and pressing the melee weapon results only in a rifle butt).

A scoped version also appeared in both games and acts as a sniper rifle in which the players can use the scope to zoom into an enemy. However, it lacks a bayonet attachment in both games.

Real life
The Sharps was invented at elast a decade before the Civil War started. Although both Union and Cofederate troops used the gun, it only became a standard issue to Union forces.