Bowie knife

The bowie knife is a melee weapon that can be picked up and used in The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided and History Civil War: Secret Missions .

The knife has a 12-inche long single-edged blade with a clip point, and has two modes of attack: stabbing and slashing. Although the method of handing the knife differs in every game. In the first game the knife is held in an downward "icepick" hold fashion while in the second game the knife is held upward. It is very effective in close quarters and can kill an enemy with one shot.

It has more power and range than a normal rifle butt but lacks the longer range of the cavalry saber.

Appears in the mission Sharpshooters at Devil's Den.

Real life
Various Confederate units adopted the bowie knife as a standard melee weapon (which is unsurprising since the person who invented it, Jim Bowie, was a Southern man himself). It was known as the Arkansas Toothpick by those who used it, and it was more popular with cavalry units and irregular partisans.