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A debate over the Talbot Boys (MD)
Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2015 9:48 pm
Updated: 12:03 pm, Fri Sep 11, 2015.
By CHRIS POLK
... The “Talbot Boys” statue has stood on the Talbot County Courthouse green for almost a century, and is a monument that lists the names of county residents who fought for the Confederacy. On top of the monument is the figure of a young soldier carrying, and partly draped in, a Confederate flag. Union soldiers are not mentioned.
Also on the courthouse grounds is a statue of famed abolitionist, author, statesman, Talbot County native and former slave Frederick Douglass.
After a hard-fought battle, the Frederick Douglass statue was erected in 2011 ...
http://www.stardem.com/news/local_news/article_7fada8b3-bde2-5ff9-8873-32c44b47e776.html
