Battle of Gettysburg

**Gettysburg** is the second mission in the Union side of the game *The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided.*

## Walkthrough

You begin in a small circular area surrounded by rocks. You are informed
that a large group of Confederate soldiers are coming to take that position.
You are then told your only hope is the sniper rifle in your hand.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Use your sniper rifle to kill the enemies.

So, move to a rock and kill Rebels for 2-5 minutes or just hide some place
as to not get hit.

After awhile, enough troops will have been killed that a LOT of Confederates
are lined up in the fields below.

Out of the blue the objective point on the compass will change and a soldier
will yell that they are everywhere. That is your queue to RUN. Turn around
and grab and ammo and med-kits on your way because Confederate cannons are
about to rain hellfire on your position and there is no way to survive.

Continue running down the hill toward your commanding officer. There will
be another med-kit right in front of him if you need it. The CO will tell
you that the Union Army needs to retreat and to head for Little Round Top.

Take off to the left following the CO toward a group of soldiers firing
across the river. Your CO will then get killed by a cannon blast.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Continue alone to your defensive line.

Four soldiers appear in front of you where the Union soldiers were firing.
Another four or five come out of the woods behind you. Good luck. You
are in the open with no real cover. I ran forward and then fell back to
where I met the CO. On HARD, I lost two stars of health instantly and
killed one of eight soldiers.

What I suggest is this. When the CO runs off, there is a rocky area to
the right. Head over there. Beyond the fence, multiple soldiers will
appear if you move too far towards it. You will get some Union backup for
this, but hold off. Go to the closest rock where there is a tree and crouch
down to take out the troops coming from the trees on the right. Out of the
roughly 10 soldiers to come from here, I took two bullets. Take cover behind
the rock and take them out as fast as you can. They will die from who cares
and your bullets.

When they stop appearing, turn around and head near the fence and then fall
back behind the rocks. Soldiers will start running into the open beyond the
fence. The same thing as with the soldiers from the woods, there will be a
few waves of them before they stop. Union soldier will come to aid you in
this, but it's a way to earn more kills for achievements.

Make use of the sniper rifle ammo as there are two boxes of it in that small
area. Eventually, the two Union soldiers there will probably die. So, run
and grab their weapons. One will refill your rifle ammo and the other had
a Colt pistol. This is important to continue on with the Pistoleer
achievement.

From the rocks, turn around and march on down the path. Now you won't have
the soldiers coming at you from behind, so you just need to worry about the
soldiers in front of you.

Hug the left side of this area and move toward a wooden wall. There is a
med-kit there and this will help as four soldiers jump out of the woods
and attack you and the Union soldiers that were in front of you.

When you reach the area where the Union boys were, another ambush is sprung
from the woods all around you. Just like the other areas, there are a few
waves of troops. I suggest slowly moving forward and then falling back to
where you were over and over until all the troops are dead. This is the
best way to retain your health on HARD I found.

Slowly work your way through this area until you spot the river. As you
near the river, Confederate soldiers will appear on the other side and
begin shooting at you as well as two soldiers coming from your left in a
small clearing there. Work your way about and kill them all before
crossing.

Cross the river and stay to the left near the wooden wall. Four soldiers
will come out from behind a rock to your right, so far back to the wood
wall and take them out. When they are killed, reload your weapons and
continue up to the left of the wall.

There will be a small clearing on the left where you can find a med-kit
under a tree. Continue into this small clearing back against a rock and
a spiked barricade. You will find a dead Union soldier with a document.
Look at the document and press the A Button. You just found the hidden
document on Gettysburg.

Return to the tree where the med-kit was found and turn left where Union
soldiers are shooting. Turn right and continue up the hill avoiding the
cannon blasts.

Run into the woods are kill the few soldiers who are on the path and run
out of the woods. Just keep running up the hill in the woods until you
see a Gatling gun. That is the objective you are trying to get to, so
just run right on up there.

The commanding officer informs you to get on the Gatling gun and kill all
of the soldiers climbing the hill. Run over to the Gatling gun and press
the A Button and go to town. The Gatling gun WILL NOT affect your
accuracy.

Eventually, the CO states you are running out of ammo and to fix your
bayonet.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Attack the enemy soldiers directly.

Press the A Button to get off the empty Gatling gun and kill the remaining
soldiers yourself. There is a med-kit to the left of the Gatling gun, so
grab it if you need it and then head to where the injured soldier is.

You need to go through the opening in the barricade he is leaning on. Do
so and follow the path past dead soldiers. You will meet a group of your
fellow troops and the CO tells them to fix the bayonets and charge.

Follow them down the creek and into the woods towards the enemy waiting with
their guns.

Take on the enemy troops and survive for the screen to eventually fade to
black to mark the end of Gettysburg.