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⚪ 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 **Why Edinburgh has a Confederate soldier memorial**

David Wallace Lockhart

_“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.”_

🔗 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y07v

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