Battle of Petersburg

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

## Walkthrough

You begin with your Commanding Officer telling you he wants the streets
cleared. Then he gets shot by a sharpshooter.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Kill the enemy snipers.

There will be one to your left in the white building in the top middle
window. After that guy, is taken out, move right and find the building to
the right of the previous one. It will say, "Godspeed Machine Co." on it.
The sniper is in the middle window there as well.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Clear the streets of enemy presence.

Cross the bridge and stand behind the set of sandbags and wait for the enemy
to come to you. This will give you protection from multiple enemies by
allowing your troops to give backup and you will not get surrounded in a
bottle neck.

As you move down the street, several soldiers appear on the bank of the river
across from the road you are on. This will be quite hurtful as they open
fire quite quickly. You can fall back to the sandbags or attempt to take
cover behind some wagons.

More soldiers appear across the river when you grab the med-kit next to the
wagon. So be prepared for that attack as well.

Move forward from the med-kit and wagon and prepare yourself because three
soldiers are about to be right in front of you. Kill them with either hand
to hand combat or something with multiple shots. After that, round the
corner and move down the street to the next wagon.

As you approach the wagon, there will be three soldiers behind the sandbags
to the left. Kill them before fully entering the area.

Enter the area and turn to the right to find at least five soldiers entering
the fight. Two from the alley, two from climbing over the wagon, and two
in the windows of the building to the left of the wagon. There will be at
least two or three waves of soldiers from those area. Afterwards, some
soldiers will begin to appear from around the house in the back of this area.
If you are quick to grab weapons before they vanish, you can grab yourself a
Scoped Sharps Rifle.

CURRENT OBJECTIVES:
- Find some explosives to clear the way.
- Clear the streets of enemy presence.

Kill the enemies and then move to the back of the area past the fountain.
There will be a building with a Gatling Gun in front of it above and archway.

Move to the front of this building and walk through the arch to the
T intersection. If you go to the right and walk to the back of this area,
you can find a med-kit behind some barrels.

You need to take the left path though for the objective. So go ahead and
take the left path. Walk onto the grass and turn right to find a lot of
barrels. Walk to the backside of the barrels to pick up the explosives.

CURRENT OBJECTIVES:
- Place explosives near the wagon.
- Clear the streets of enemy presence.

Turn around from where you grabbed the explosive and you should see a small
white mark on the ground near a dead Union soldier. Go ahead and walk over
there and look at the document on the ground and press the A Button. This is
Petersburg's hidden document.

Now, return to the overturned wagon the Confederate were jumping over. Look
at the red transparent barrel and press the A Button to plant the explosives.
Move away from them some distance and wait for it to explode.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Free the prisoners by destroying the prison gates.

Walk through the newly created path and hang a right. Walk up to the spiked
barricade and then creep back into the alley as a few soldiers will run out
and begin shooting you. From the alley, you can pop out and take them out
one-by-one. There will be a med-kit to your right if it is needed.

Cross the bridge and prepare for another five soldiers to come out from
behind that wagon. Kill the initial troops and when you get next to the
wagon itself, another set of five or so will appear. Kill them all and then
march up the road to find the prison gates to the right with the red
transparent barrel in front of it.

Run to the barrel and place the explosive and move away until the explode.
Enter the prison and find the other gate and repeat what you just did to the
previous gate to complete the objective.

Exit the prison through the blasted gate and head down the alley.

A soldier jumps out of a window and runs to the end of the alley. Approach
him and he'll state that he wants to be the person to bring down the Rebel
flag.

CURRENT OBJECTIVE:
- Bring down the enemy flag.

Don't let that soldier beat you. Move out into the streets and take cover
as you will be taking fire from all sides. At least two waves will come
from over the spiked barricade to your left. There will be some grenades
to the left as well, but you will have to contend with the soldiers jumping
the barricade and a sniper that's in a window to the building on the left
of the alleyway.

Grab the grenades when you can and run to the wagons. There will be soldiers
to the right behind some sand bags and one or two more sharpshooters. Take
out the soldiers and approach the red bricked arch and grab the med-kit in
the middle of the wagons if needed.

The Confederate are going to make one last assault with about ten soldiers.
Throw those grenades into the area and shoot like crazy. Soon you will see
Confederate soldiers in the background surrendering to you.

Proceed through the arch and walk to the flag and ladder. Press the A Button
to watch your soldiers salute and help wounded Confederate soldiers. The
camera will pan up and display the stars and stripes of the United States of
America.

The screen will then fade to black marking the end of the Petersburg mission
as well as the end to the North missions. Congrats on being half-way done if
you are totally following this.