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The statue commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war. Students at Stonewall Jackson High School are divided on its name, and what it says ...

The memorial is to Robert A Smith, a Scottish man who fought in the US Civil War Deep in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, there's a grey obelisk, around 2m (6ft) high, its inscription faded.