Vintage Waltham Watch Repair

Overhaul Service of an 1877, Key-wind, 7 Jewel, Broadway Model, Pocket Watch

This pocket watch once owned by Civil War Veteran William Washington Murrie.  The watch was disassembled and Cleaned. Reassembled and lubricated. Watch regulated and balance adjusted, case cleaned and hand polished. Watch placed on extended testing. Overhaul service complete.

Biography provided by current owner of the watch and relative.
William Washington Murrie, born in 1842, was a lifelong resident of Caswell County, North Carolina. When he was 17 years old he enlisted with the 6th NC State Troops to fight in the “War Between the States.” During the war, he was captured at Rappahannock Station, Virginia, and spent the remainder of the war at Point Lookout, Maryland as a prisoner of war. When the war was finally over in April of 1865 he walked back to Caswell County in North Carolina and married Emma Miles in 1870. The photo was most likely taken at the time of their marriage.

6th Infantry Regiment State Troops was organized at Camp Alamance, near Company Shops (Burlington), North Carolina, in May, 1861. The men were from the counties of Mecklenburg, Orange, Burke, Catawba, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey, Alamance, Rowan, Wake, Caswell, and Chatham. Ordered to Virginia the unit fought under General B. E. Bee, then spent the summer and winter in the Dumfries area. Its brigadiers during the conflict were Generals Whiting, Law, Hoke, Godwin, and W. G. Lewis. The 6th was prominent in the campaigns of the army from Seven Pines to Mine Run, then was active in the battles of Plymouth and Cold Harbor. It fought with Early in the Shenandoah Valley and later in the Appomattox operations.
This regiment reported 23 killed and 50 wounded at First Manassas, and in April, 1862, contained 715 effectives. It lost 115 during the Seven Days’ Battles, 147 at Second Manassas and Ox Hill, 125 in the Maryland Campaign, and 25 at Fredericksburg. Of the 509 engaged at Gettysburg, thirty-six percent were disabled. At the Rappahannock River in November, 1863, it lost 5 killed, 15 wounded, and 317 missing, and there were 6 killed and 29 wounded at Plymouth. It surrendered with 6 officers and 175 men of which 72 were armed. The field officers were Colonels Isaac E. Avery, Charles F. Fisher, William D. Pender, and Robert F. Webb; Lieutenant Colonels William T. Dortch, Charles E. Lightfoot, and Samuel M. Tate; and Major Richard W. York.

Murrie, W. W.

BATTLE UNIT NAME:
6th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
SIDE:
Confederacy
COMPANY:
H
SOLDIER’S RANK IN:
Private
SOLDIER’S RANK OUT:
Corporal
ALTERNATE NAME:
FILM NUMBER:
M230 ROLL 28
PLAQUE NUMBER:
NOTES:
none

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