First Battle of Bull Run

**Bull Run** is the first mission in the Confederate side of the game *The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided.*

## Walkthrough

Your fellow
soldiers run off to fight and leave you by yourself.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Destroy the cannons.

So, run straight ahead from the direction you are facing. You will take
some explosive charges. Run towards the barricade for cover from the
soldiers to your left and then run to the wagon in front of you. As
you approach, the wagon will explode, so move between the burning
wagon and the covered wagon towards the barricade.

There will be at least three soldiers setting up a defensive position,
so you will need to kill them.

Once they are dead, move up to the wagon they set up behind and more
soldiers will attack you. Watch your back as some soldiers will
approach the wooden fence from the hill.

Finish the soldiers and make your way across the bridge and more
soldiers will begin to attack you.

Support your fellow soldiers and take out the five or so troops that
have attacked you. Be careful of going to far forward toward the
objective. There will be a soldiers with a six-shot pistol on the
opposite side of the wall who seems to hit you six times. This is
pretty much instant death on the HARD difficulty level. So, you
may want to think about saving.

Make your way past the wagon and past the end of the bridge then turn
to your left. Assault the soldier on the path who has the pistol with
your grenades. After he is dead, go to the opposite side of the covered
wagon at the end of the bridge. You can slowly move yourself out of
the cover from the wagon to kill each soldier but one. This also
includes the cannon crew. This method works great on HARD.

Make your way down the path between the spiked gates. There should
be one soldier left behind the covered wagon. Sometimes he moves out
from behind it while you are taking cover previously. So, you may have
killed him, but be careful on HARD. Some soldiers will shoot at you
from across the river where the cannons were pointed as you enter the
area with the cannons. This is very annoying on HARD.

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As you approach the cannons, a lot of soldiers will charge down the hill
behind the cannons and covered wagon to jump the fence and kill you.
Quickly plant the explosive charge by pressing the A Button on the red
transparent barrel and use a grenade on the cluster of soldiers. Now,
run back up to the covered wagon on the bridge before the cannons
explode and those soldiers kill you. Those soldiers will keep running
from the atop the hill, so do not sit there and fight unless you need
kills for achievements on EASY difficulty.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Find your commanding officer.

Make your way back across the bridge towards the soldiers at the end
of it. Occasionally, there will be up to four enemy soldier standing
around at the end of the bridge right near the commanding officer.
So, stay to the right side of the bridge and carefully check this as
you approach. When you get to the commanding officer, he will tell
you that you need to destroy three barricades in the middle of the
enemy positions. He will then give you more explosive charges.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Destroy the 3 barricades with your explosive charges.

Make your way down the road past where you started the battle of
Bull Run. Keep running down the road into the fog of war. The fog
will clear near a cluster of wagon. As you approach, enemy soldiers
will appear from between some of the wagons. Go to the left of the
left wagon as there is an explosive barrel in the road. The enemy
will gladly set this off to kill you.

Make your way past the first two wagons toward a third. Three
soldiers will run out from behind that wagon. Kill them and go
behind the barricade because five more soldiers are going to attack
from behind the burning wagon. A decent strategy on HARD is to run
to the barricade and then run back behind the wagons. Your troops
advance and will kill them for you.

Move past the burning wagon to watch another covered wagon explode
and flip over. Some soldiers will spawn further up and your fellow
troops will advance. They will die and leave you alone to fight.
Move past the burning wagon toward the two destroyed wagons. A few
more troops will run from the trees in front of you and attack.

Move forward and observe a wagon being blasted over. Run back
because it spilled an explosive charge and it is going to explode.
Once the barrel explodes, take cover in that wagon. You will then be
told to take out a snipers nest.

Make your way toward the snipers nest using the barricades for cover.
During this assault, be wary of the troops to your right that are
firing beyond the spiked fencing. Once you move beyond that first
grouping of soldiers past the fence, more will set up behind some
barricades down the field. Again, be wary of them as you take on the
sniper.

Probably the easiest way to kill the sniper is to stop at the first
barricade after being told to kill him. Pop up and take a shot at him.

Approach that second barricade and look at the next one. You should
spot a cannon and a barrel next to the fence. Make some distance
between yourself and the barrel and shoot the barrel. Proceed through
the blown fence to find a secret area. Turn to the right and find the
corpse lying there. Pick up this missions hidden picture.

Head to the sniper tower and continue up the road. Some soldiers will
attack from your right as you move past the wooden fence. Take them
out or keep running. You have some backup and they should keep those
soldiers off of you.

Keep to the road until you are blocked by wagons. Proceed through the
opening in the broken fence and keep a steady head and watchful eye.
There are at least three soldiers in the field to the left of the
burning wagon and three past the hay stacks on the right.

Enter the field on the left and turn left to the wagon. Walk behind
the wagon to find a secret area with some health and ammo. Go to the
burning wagon and there should be about another three to five troops
that run into the field. Kill them and continue into the clearing
towards the barricades with the red transparent barrel.

Place the first barrel with the A Button and run away. Once it
explodes, troops will appear to the left and right from the trees.
Two will set up behind the barrel looking barricade and the other two
will stand around.

Kill them and place the second charge. Again, run away and then more
soldiers will appear from the forests on the left and right sides.
Two on the left and one on the right.

Kill the three soldiers and then place the last charge.

When the barricade explodes, an FMA (Full Motion Animation) will
play where a cavalry charge occurs through the blown barricades.

That marks the end of Bull Run.