The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-31
RICHMOND VA sANDAY MARION 81,
.B|!|URRUs Of 0|R|A|ABl,
A FIGHTING FAMILY.
Six Brothers Who Left Orange
County Home to Fight for
South.

Editor oG8Tho Times Dispntch:
Sir--sacing the question raised by
You In tho Confederate Column Ms TO
what family may have furnished tho
largest number of soldiers to the
South, herewith hand you all article
copied from. an old paper 1t Is headed
IA Just Tribute to the Burruss Boys
Of Orange County" and was written
by q, friend u reads as follows;
Perhaps among all the glorious
records made by the sons of the South
during the late war in their struggle
than that of this Burrus family, OF
Orange And yet there has been
but Slight public nlctnion OF
them, and evcn thnt / nm,
sure, was without their knowl-
edge. Their bravery 10 only cnualcd
by their molesty. Before speaking of
the boys permitGme to say q word or
two about their parents and sisters.
ASpATRIO,rlC FAMILY.
Lancnot ana Mildred Burrus had
six sons and two daughters Tho dos
votion and sclf-sacrlfice Of father,
mother and daughters to tho Confed-.
erHcy was never surpassed. Not only
sons were given, but everything else.
The house was opon from tho begin
ming to the end of the war to the Com
tedernte soldiers, abc they few or many,
as they passed. The fields were thrown
open to droves OF cattle to Craze us
, they wore bo!ng driven to the army,
and all rs frecsas tho very air. Negroes
We're furnished the government to
work on brenstworks. Everything was
Icheerfully given. Nc
4.'And the boys, what shnllgI say OF
them? cannot begin to do them JUS
5tice, az some survivor ofSisthe old
Thirteenth From Farper's Ferry to
5Appomattox they ware ever In the
front OF battle At tho outbreak of
the war five OF the siX-Martin, San-
dy, Lancelot, Robert and Jpe--enlisted
in Company A Thirteenth Virginia.
and went to Harper's Ferry. The sixth,
John, very young, Went to- Lexington
to the military Institute to prepare.
WELL AT SUNRISE, d FAD All SUN
SET <.
In ono day, during tho Seven Days
Fights around Richnond three OF
$thenl-.AIartin,i Il 70 bert md Joe-fell
upon the field OF battle; well at sum
rise, dead at sunset; this was at
@Gaines's Mill. III "a
ne same day Lnncclot was struck
on his belt-bucltle by ball, which
glanced md passed through his
clothes, just grazing tho skin. The
same Lancelot was wounded five times
Edurlgn theFWar, three times severely,
the last #timo upon the retrent from
to be left upon the roadside uncared
for. as hundreds Of others were. Im-
mediately $npon learning OF the death
Of his brothers John left tho military
Institute. though stillHvery young, and
Joined the Sixth Virginia Calvary, and
was Severely wounded mt Strusburg
as was also Sandy. Three died and
the othor three were severely wound
Cd for the. cause they loved, and since
the war Virginia has had no truer
sons than the Surviving boys Two
Orange, tho only surviving mambers
a NOBLE. FATHER,
"A short time after tho death of his
sons tlle-noble old father came dowl
with his wagon and carried thei,
bodies home and buried thcm near the
house, and some years ago he wa:
laid by thor side, as was also The
heroic old mother at the age OF eighty.
| three. also Sandy and tho noble sis.
ters.''
II Will thank you to give tho above
! sketch copied from the old paper II
the Confederate Column
SUBSCRIBER.
Monvoria, Va, 1905