"Created as a monument to yet another American war, this pedestal with two standing figures personalizes the national significance of the Civil War. The two persons represented are Sam Davis and Bill Marsh. Davis would have been familiar to many as the young Confederate scout executed by Union troops for spying. Knowing that Bill Marsh was a more obscure figure, Wickham identifies him in the inscription as the First Man that Voted a Union Ticket, in Montgomery County. The artist continues by identifying his father’s role,R. L. Wickham Voted the Second One [Union ticket]. What Wickham doesn’t say is that Marsh was his maternal grandfather.

Happy to put the Civil War behind him and his audience Wickham states in the front inscription, It Is All Over With Now Bill and Well That It Is As It Is. Here again Wickham reveals a political stance that might be considered outside the norms of the community.

Marsh’s lengthy beard is a documented feature of Wickham’s ancestor. As in several of his other creations, Wickham used a photograph of his subject as a reference. The prominent beard appears in both photograph and sculpture. " - quoted text is from the 2001 Customs House Museum Online Wickham Exhibit.