Battle of Selma

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

## Walkthrough

You begin down the road from Ebenezer Church and are orders to eliminate the
Rebels there.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Eliminate the resistance at Ebenezer Church.

March on down the road to the church. Approach the wagon that has wrecked on
the spiked barricades and take cover behind it. A group a soldiers will be
lining themselves up along the church fences and this will prevent you from
taking a lot of damage and provides some cover to shoot back. You may also
use the trees to the right of the road. You can also run up to the left side
of the walls there and crouch. You don't take a lot of damage because it
seems as if the enemy is unable to really find you and will roam around trying
to do so giving you the opportunity to kill them easily. The choice is yours
and yours alone.

Once you kill the soldiers at that side of the church, if you are quick enough
you can claim their weapons for yourself and get a Colt Rifle instead of the
single shot musket you have. This is a tremendous help in any battle.

As you walk to the back to the church, three soldiers jump the fence and
attack you. So, just kill them and move on.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Use the trenches to get to the Commander.

Walk to the gate and the overturned wagon and walk to the right of it. You
will find a trench soon and that's where you need to go. If you continue
walking to the right, you will come under cannon and Gatling fire.

From the end of the trench, you can easily kill the Gatling gun crew for some
extra kills. If you do or don't, move through the trench to the soldier
waiting there.

He will give you a note that contains the orders for the squads of troops
waiting in the forests around Selma.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Use the trenches to bring the note to the Commander.

As you make your way through the trench, you will come to a clearing. This
clearing will have several soldiers firing at you and you will need to clear
them out to safely advance.

Move across the clearing and into the next trench to find two Rebels firing
their muskets across the field. Pop them in their heads so they do not fire
at you.

At the mouth to that second trench, look at the burning wagon to the left.
Mosey on over there and move to the right of the burning wagon to find a
secret area with some ammo.

Return to the second trench and enter it. Proceed through the trench to find
at least one soldier charging you about half way through it. Another soldier
may join him from the field by jumping into the trench, but he may also get
killed by a cannon blast and do a flip over the entire trench.

At the end of the second trench is another clearing where several troops run
into and take up defensive positions. Either stay in the trench or run to the
barricade where a fellow Union soldier lies. After clearing the first group,
another group will come out and attack you.

Proceed up that small hill and go on into the third trench. To the left is
a med-kit, rifle ammo and musket ammo. Grab them if you need them and proceed
down the trench to find three Confederate crouching and taking shots across
the field. If you stay where the ammo is and slowly walk and shoot, they will
never fire back if you aim your shots carefully.

Continue past them and slowly move down the trench to find another three
firing across the fields. Repeat the same method as the previous troops and
you can get through this unscathed.

This trench will raise up and essentially end and there will be two Rebel
soldiers waiting at the top. As you approach though, your soldiers jump
the sandbags and kill them for you. Exit the third trench and either find and
kill the soldiers further down the fourth trench or just enter the trench and
deal with them at a closer range. Either way, they're already shooting at you
from your current position.

Enter that fourth trench and proceed through it. Ignore the Gatling Gun as no
enemy soldiers appear when you do and you may get a few shots in the back.

Turn the corner to find another Gatling Gun, but this one has a crew...unless
you killed them after exiting trench three.

As you near the exit of the fourth trench, some enemies are lined up near a
burning wagon. You got to kill them in order to safely proceed and get some
goodies.

When you have taken care of the soldiers stand at the exit of the trench and
turn to the left. Look at that singled out barrel barricade thing. Walk up
to it and find the document on the ground and press the A Button. You have
just found the hidden picture at Selma.

Put the picture away and turn around to face the burning wagon. Walk to the
left of it and be quick to take some shots. Two soldiers will quickly take
some shots at you from the fifth trench. Kill them and walk forward to find
some more soldiers above the trench shooting across the field. Kill them as
well and move through the trench to the exit in the woods where you can find
a med-kit to the left of the exit and a soldier.

The soldier says he'll provide cover as you two make your way through the
woods to the Commander.

As you proceed through, be ready at the first bend in the woods that goes
to the left. There will be three soldiers waiting for you there with
muskets.

Go past their bodies to a turn to the right and there will be another two or
three soldiers along the path waiting for you with their muskets. Kill them
and be careful of the cannon fire along the path you must take.

You will come to a large clearing with a hill, a lot of wrecked wagons and
a large number of enemy troops along the hill. Kill the enemies here by
utilizing the trees in the woods or rushing to the wagons. Once they're dead
climb over the hill or walk around it and move up to the Union soldiers
waiting on the path.

You will give the note to the Commander and he will state that his soldiers
are already in the city and have destroyed ammunition depots and supply lines.
The attack is now on then the screen fades to black and that marks the end of
the Selma mission.