Why Edinburgh (Scotland) has a Confederate soldier memorial
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Deep in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, there’s a grey obelisk, around 2m (6ft) high, its inscription faded.
It commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war.
As a Confederate soldier, he fought for the Southern pro-slavery states who wanted to break away from the Union.
The conflict prompted Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing enslaved African-Americans.
Confederate monuments have been at the heart of heated debates in the US about how the war should be remembered.
This memorial was erected by Robert’s brother.
Robert was one of nine children. He left Edinburgh and moved to Mississippi as a 14-year-old, travelling to join his brother James.
James Smith had arrived in the city of Jackson in the 1830s, building a successful…
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