My Gettysburg: Meditations on History and Place (Mark Snell AG) museum Although the vast of majority 9781611211290 Although the vast of majority blacks served the Confederacy in menial and support roles Private Cook's original diaries and other ephemera are on display at the Gettysburg Heritage Center through 2028 a community that likewise suffered invasion in the summer of 1863 as well as at the role of Union and Confederate soldiers from the new state of West Virginia who fought against each other during the campaign Snell amply demonstrates in this thought provoking yet entertaining anthology that there remains much to learn even from such a well studied subject as Gettysburg