1864 CONFEDERATE TREASURY WIDOW’S PAY SETTLEMENT – PVT. WILLIAM MCMURRAY, 1st SC RIFLES, DIED: JUNE 27, 1862

1864 CONFEDERATE TREASURY WIDOW’S PAY SETTLEMENT – PVT. WILLIAM MCMURRAY, 1st SC RIFLES, DIED: JUNE 27, 1862

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A poignant Confederate Treasury Department document settling the back pay of a South Carolina soldier for his widow. The printed form, on blue paper, is headed "Treasury Department, Confederate States, Second Auditor's Office, Richmond, Va., Feby. 17th 1864." It encloses certificate No. 12,457 for $42.90:

"being the amount found due upon an examination of the claim of Charity E. McMurray, widow of William McMurray deceased, late Private of Capt. Cheshire's Co. K, Orr's Regiment Rifles S.C. Vols. … for the services of said deceased, from March 1st 1862, the date to which he was last paid, to June 27, 1862, the date of his death, inclusive, 3 months and 27 days at $11.00 per month ($42.90)."

The payment is made out to "C. E. McMurray, widow" and addressed to "Mrs. C. E. McMurray, care of J. E. Hagood Esq., Pickens C.H., S.C." It is signed for Auditor W. H. S. Taylor by the Chief of the Division of Deceased Soldiers.

The date of death is significant. On June 27, 1862, Orr's Rifles (the 1st South Carolina Rifles), serving in Gregg's Brigade of A. P. Hill's Light Division, charged at the Battle of Gaines' Mill during the Seven Days Battles and lost more than half its men. Orr's Rifles drew heavily from the upstate districts around Pickens, and this document is a reminder that it took Richmond nearly two years to pay a widow less than $43 for her husband's final months of service.

A pencil notation "Mitchell" appears at lower left. One page, approximately 8" x 10". Usual folds, a few small chips and tears along the edges, and light soiling. Reverse is blank. Very good condition.    [cm] [ph:L]

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