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778 the February following the company under his command was detached, by order of the secretary of war, and organized as a battery of light artillery. As such it was subsequently attached to the brigade of Col. Tom Taylor, in Gen. Carter L. Stevenson's brigade of E. Kirby Smith's corps. On their evacuation of Cumberland Gap it was occupied by the Federals under command of General Morgan, and Captain Burroughs participated in the campaign against them, which occupied August, and resulted in the Federal evacuation. His command followed the retreating enemy into Kentucky and were about to give battle when ordered to move to Danville, Ky., where they remained until after the battle of Perryville, when they joined in Bragg's retreat to Tennessee. Captain Burroughs' battery was then assigned to duty at Cumberland Gap, during the winter of 1862-63, and in the spring following was engaged in guarding the bridges at Zollicoffer and vicinity. In the fall of 1863 they captured the Federal blockhouse at Limestone, Tenn., being led in this action by Gen. Wm. L. Jackson. They were again engaged that fall at Bluntville, and in the following Winter were stationed at the salt works near Abingdon, and in May, 1864, when all troops were withdrawn from that military district, Burroughs' battery went to the protection of the lead mines in Wythe county, Va., acting with a force of home guards. In October, 1864, Gen. John C. Breckinridge was assigned to that territory, and under his command the battery moved to Wytheville, and subsequently fought in the battles of Bull's Gap and Marion, intending to join the army of Lee at Lynchburg. But at Christiansburg they learned that the army of Northern Virginia had surrendered and Captain Burroughs, with twenty-five of his men, moved toward Johnston's army, joining it at Greensboro about the time of its surrender, in which they participated, and were paroled May 4, 1865. Returning then to his home, Captain Burroughs resumed the practice of law at Norfolk in 1866, soon becoming distinguished in the profession. In 1870 his attainments were recognized by his election to the position of corporation judge, by the legislature, a post he filled with eminent ability until 1877. He is the author of two works of a legal nature, one entitled "Law of Taxation, Federal, State and Municipal," published in September, 1877, and one on "Public Securities of America," published in 1881, which have become widely accepted as authorities on those topics. He is an active member of Pickett-Buchanan camp, United Confederate Veterans.

John S. Burwell, of Taylor's Store, Va., was born in Franklin county, September 15, 1845, a great-grandson of Col. Lewis Burwell, of Revolutionary fame. True to the patriotic traditions of his family, he enlisted when seventeen years of age, in the fall of 1862, as a private in Company G of the Thirty-seventh Virginia battalion of cavalry, Maj. James L. Claiborne. During Longstreet's occupation of east Tennessee in the fall and winter of 1863, he served in the cavalry brigade of W. E. Jones, Ransom's division, in that region, and was engaged in frequent skirmishes with the enemy. Returning then to the Shenandoah valley, he served in the contests in the spring and summer of 1864 in that region, and after Early took command, participated in the raid through Maryland to Washington, D. C., and, the many skirmishes and severe battles which followed between Early and Sheridan, having his most