The statue commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war.

The conflict prompted Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 ... But he supported the Confederate cause from afar – even flying the new red and blue flag from his Glasgow home ...

Since then, our beautiful country has fought two other wars. We call them the First and Second World War. We have endured ...

Confederate rebels were, after all, paradigmatically disobedient. In the words of the Prize Cases (1863), they had "declared ... soil and under the American flag were "natural-born … citizens." ...

John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn's West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a trying ...

Believing that moving troops to defend the state’s capital was more critical than saving a city that seemed undefendable, on Feb. 15 Confederate ... Wagner in July 1863. Even as they began ...