A statue that was thought to be the last Confederate monument on a courthouse lawn in Maryland has been removed.
Highlights
- The “Talbot Boys Statue’ was relocated Monday.
- The statue stood on the Talbot County courthouse lawn in Easton for more than a century.
- A coalition raised more than $80,000 to relocate it to a historic battlefield in Virginia.
- The sculpture features a boy holding a Confederate flag and names the men from the Eastern Shore county who joined the Confederacy and died in the war.
- The county council voted to approve its removal in September, a coalition raised $8,000 for the relocation.