Civil War Monument

In June 1917, James A. Pearce erected a tribute to the patriotism and valor of a once divided but reunited county by honoring soldiers of Kent who served in both the Confederate and Federal armies from 1861 to 1865. It names Kent men in the Confederate Army, including Captain William I. Rasin, Macall M. Rasin, George T. Hollyday, Sol. Wright, George W. Rolph, Lieutenant H. C. Blackiston, James A. Kennard, Thomas H. Gemmill, J. Chapman Spencer, James J. Spear, Dewitt C. Spear, Edwin W. Spear, Reverend William B. Everett, Hugh M. Wallis, Levi Perkins, Doctor William H. Lassell, Reverend James T. Lasselll, Samuel J. Kelly, John H. Kennard, William T. Wallis, H.C. Wallis, Fred K. Baker, George M. Beasten, Luther Handy, Harry McCoy, Meford Hynson, Josiah L. Dulaney, James S. Price, Henry Willison, Samuel G. Gleaves, William C. Price, Benjamin C. Vickers, and Ferdinand B. Prince, and identifies men killed at 1st Manassas, Winchester, Greenland Gap, Appomattox, and Shiloh, as well as one wounded at 1st Manassass and later dying. It also honors soldiers of Kent in the Federal Army from 1861 to 1865, especially the Second Easter Shore Regiment, naming Colonel Ed. Wilkins, lieutenant Colonel E. E. Massey, Captain Jesse K. Hines, Captain William D. Burchinal, Captain Charles H. Wickes, Captain Albert L. Corey, Captain Robert M. Smythe, Lieutenant William J. Vannort, Lieutenant John Redue, Lieutenant Charles A.A. Stanley, Lieutenant Stephen M. Crane, William H. Hamilton, George E. Lambert, A. S. Benjamin, John F. Howard, Thornton A. Fiddis, John W. Rasin, John N. McDaniel, Sorin S. Baker, James Moat Gray, and Jacob Allen, and records Lieutenant W. L. Greenwood and 10 other privates killed at Mine Run, Virginia. Its closing lines place blue and gray alike under the sod, awaiting Judgment Day, and declare both true to their call of duty.

Chestertown, Maryland · United States