10/20/2026
Weekly Weird News · paranormal

U.S. Civil War Veteran's Grave in Stockport, England

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter
U.S. Civil War Veteran's Grave in Stockport, England
In a relatively small municipal cemetery in Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK is one of a limited number of known resting places of American Civil War veterans in the UK. The grave marker once had a 3ft high cross mounted above it but it has been damaged recently and the cross now leans on the marker. The grave is in a section of the cemetery used mainly for Catholic burials and the graves around his carry many Irish names. The inscription on the upper part of the sandstone marker reads:- Of
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