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Yesterday, on the real Veterans Day (11^th hour,11^th day and so on…), Mama Wordbones and went for a walk around thehills of Ellicott City. At the top of CourtAvenue we stopped at the Circuit Court courthouse facing what was originallythe main entrance when the building was built in 1843. It remained the frontdoor until a major renovation and expansion in 1986 moved the “court house steps” to the rear of the building.

It occurred to me that I had never stood at the original entranceso I bounded up the old granite steps to take a look. It was there that wediscovered this memorial to the veterans of World War I, World War II, and theKorean “Conflict.”
This wasn't the only memorial we found up there. To the leftof the entrance we discovered this memorial to the “brave men who fought so courageouslyin the Confederate Army.”I was intrigued by the listing of a General James R. Herbert since I hadn't heard of any HoCo citizen that served as a general in the ConfederateArmy. A little research revealed that General Herbert was a Colonel in theConfederate Army but after the war became a Brigadier General commanding theMaryland National Guard in 1874. 
Happy Veterans Day (observed).