A small group gathered over the weekend in front of plaque in downtown Salisbury marking the life of confederate General John Henry Winder.
They were protesting a petition that has been also signed by Mayor Jake Day as a private citizen to remove the plaque.
Jonathan Taylor with a local blog the Eastern Shore News helped organized the protest.
He said, “There’s nothing offensive about it. It doesn’t have any confederate flag or anything that people could find offensive. It’s just about a guy who was from the area and I think people get too sensitive about word “confederate”. And that’s my big problem with it all.”
The protest of around dozen comes after James Yamakawa with the group called Showing Up for Racial Justice began circulating the petition.
In addition to marking Winder’s participation in Confederate Army he was also involved in confederate prisons which saw – what many have deemed – war crimes because of the treatment of the inmates.
Taylor has started his own online petition to keep the plaque.
So far, there has been no indication the county will take action on the dispute.
