Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Burrows or search for Burrows in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Sabbath at the "finished" town of Fredericksburg. On our arrival, we found ourself the guest of one of the most cordial, polite Virginia gentlemen we have ever met. The Sabbath which looked down upon us was one of unusual brightness and beauty; the air was sweet and balmy, and everything wore the aspect of a lovely spring day. Before going to church we walked out to the place where rest the ashes of "Mary, the mother of Washington," which is marked by an unfinished monument, the work of a Mr. Burrows, of New York, who failed before accomplishing his patriotic purpose, and, while others are anxious to carry it out, yet he urgently solicits their delay until his broken fortunes are repaired. In our walk we passed by the humble house beneath whose roof George Washington lived, and saw the garden in which his mother oftentimes labored with her own hands. As we witnessed the narrow proportions of the building where such a man was nurtured, and remembered that his mother was willing