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Death of Major Burroughs.

--Major Edgar Burroughs, late of the Princess Anne Rangers, and actively engaged in the Confederate service, was killed in Norfolk last week. Major B., it will be recollected, was arrested at a late hour of the night at his residence in Princess Anne, and carried off to Norfolk, where he was tried by a military commission, ordered by Butler, and sentenced to death. Before the execution of the sentence, he was seized with the small pox, and removed to the Portsmouth Hospital. While rapidly convalescing, be attempted a few days since to escape from the hospital and was shot by one of the negro guards out side, and mortally wounded. He survived only twenty four hours. Major B. was a minister of the gospel previously to the breaking out of this war, and as noble, gallant and patriotic a man as Virginia has produced.

The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. February 5, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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