The “Talbot Boys” statue is thought to be the last such monument left on state or local public land in Maryland.
Its removal was approved last year by the Talbot County Council following public protest and contentious debate.
“[T]he civil war monument in front of the courthouse was carefully and respectfully packaged and removed,” Talbot County Manager Clay B. Stamp said Monday in an interview. “However we handled the statue, we wanted to make sure we showed due respect for it, because there were many people that honored its purpose.”
The 13-foot copper statue of a young soldier, which stood atop a pedestal inscribed with the names of those Talbot County men who fell in the Confederacy’s cause, is thought to be the last Confederate monument standing on nonfederal public land in Maryland, according to the Move the Monument Coalition. The nonprofit organization said in a statement that $80,000 had been raised to relocate the monument to the Cross Keys Battlefield in Harrisonburg, Va.
Efforts to remove the Confederate monument took on urgency in 2020 as protests for racial justice swept the nation following the murder of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police. An initial vote by the Talbot County Council that summer to retain the statue was met with local protests that eventually led council members to reverse course in September.Stamp said workers spent Sunday preparing the courthouse grounds for the monument’s removal.
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