CSA 7, 5¢ blue vertical pair used with “Chula Depot” manuscript cancel on pale orange overall college cover of Richmond Female Institute (CSA catalog type VA-13, CCV $750) showing college buildings (tiny imprint at LR “Litho. by A. Hoen & Co. Balto”), to “Mrs. Charles H. Winston, Box 219, Charlotte, NC.” $350.

Charles Henry Winston (1831-1918) was the son of Peter Winston and Ann Eliza Woodard Winston. In 1851, he was a student at the Warren Green Academy in Warrenton; he graduated Hampden-Sydney College in 1854, and received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1857. In 1858, he was named Vice-President of the Richmond Female Institute. He became President there in 1859 and held that position until 1873. He then was named Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Richmond College. He was much in demand as a lecturer on scientific, educational and religious subjects. During the last two years of the Civil War, he was Superintendent of the Confederate Nitre Bureau, for which he was commissioned a major of cavalry. He was instrumental in the establishment of a plant to manufacture sulfuric acid in Charlotte, NC. 

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