A confederate grave in Edinburgh

This is the grave (or memorial) of a 26 year old Scot's Colonel Robert A. Smith in the Confederate Army who died at the Battle of Munfordville. Of course the reason his grave is here is caused he was born in Edinburgh.

The Battle of Munfordville (also known as the Battle of Green River) was an engagement in Kentucky during the American Civil War. Victory there allowed the Confederates to temporarily strengthen their hold on the region and impair Union supply lines - September 1862

Two separate places in the US National Register of Historic Places are related to the battle. The Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Horse Cave marks the grave of a Louisiana soldier accidentally killed while clearing timber for the Confederate advance. The Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument is the only one still on the battlefield and he is coomemmorated here in Dean's Cemetery Edinburgh. It says at the stone that it is an official war grave ...