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EASTON, Md. (WJZ) — The Talbot County Council connected Tuesday nighttime voted 3-2 to instrumentality down the Talbot Boys monument and relocate the statue to a battlefield successful Harrisonburg, Va., according to a study from CBS affiliate WBOC.
Council members Pete Lesher, Frank Divilio and Corey W. Pack voted successful favour of the move, with Laura E. Price and Chuck F. Callahan opposed, the presumption said.
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On Facebook, Divilio said the American Battlefield Trust would determination monument to the Cross Keys Battlefield, portion of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign successful 1862–“a bid of battles wherever Talbot County humor was shed connected some sides.”
He said the monument would archer the communicative of familial conflicts during the war, pointing to the communicative of William Goldsborough, who was progressive successful seizure of his ain brother, Charles, during that campaign.
“If the Talbot Boys marque this move, they volition assistance archer the communicative of the Civil War and however communities and families were divided, unfortunately, overmuch arsenic we are today,” helium wrote.
Divilio, who antecedently was against moving the Talbot Boys statue, said the conflict implicit the monument’s destiny has prevented the assembly from addressing different issues, specified arsenic the effect to COVID-19, expanding amended broadband entree and cellphone coverage, and providing permits.
“The Talbot Boys contented has divided our assemblage for excessively agelong and has sidelined galore different important things the County Council and County Government needs to address,” helium said.
No section government, enactment oregon concern stepped guardant to judge the Talbot Boys, helium added.
In May, the section subdivision of the NAACP filed a national lawsuit to region the monument from the tract of the Talbot County Courthouse. The statue, depicting a young solider carrying a Confederate conflict flag, is believed to beryllium the past monument to the Confederacy remaining connected nationalist spot successful the authorities too cemeteries and battlefields.
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Dedicated successful 1916, the statue besides includes the names of 84 section men who fought for the Confederacy. Advocates for keeping the statue successful spot person argued it represents U.S. history.
The region assembly successful August 2020 voted 3-2 to fto the memorial remain.
In effect to past night’s vote, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, who had antecedently called for the statue’s removal, simply tweeted, “Good riddance.”
Good riddance. https://t.co/YG4ld3HujR
— Brian Frosh (@BrianFrosh) September 15, 2021
In a statement, U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, different proponent of removal, said the monument’s placement extracurricular the courthouse embodies “injustice and inequality,” adding that it was erected much than 50 years aft the extremity of the warfare during the epoch of racist Jim Crow laws.
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“It’s past clip we region this stain connected justness from the County Courthouse grounds, and I’m gladsome to spot tonight’s ballot to bash that,” helium said.
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