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Maryland’s last public Confederate monument removed

A statue that was thought to be the last Confederate monument on a courthouse lawn in Maryland has been removed.

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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.