CSA 8, 2¢ brown red (small faults) tied CHARLOTTESVILLE VA October 3 circular datestamp drop use on fresh TURNED COVER locally addressed to George Carr Esq. Charlottesville, Va. Inside use CSA 7, 2 singles of 5¢ dark blue pen canceled with manuscript “Junction Va Mar 26th/63” to Mrs. Wm. T. Early, Charlottesville, Va. Ex Engstler Charlottesville collection and Ex John Vagnetti. Listed both in CSA 8 Covers and CSA 7, Section 1. $700.

George Carr (1800-1886) was a prominent Charlottesville attorney. A few years before the Civil War, Carr was named commissioner for the liquidation of the Monticello estate owned by Thomas Jefferson, a legal assignment that occupied him for two decades. In the early years of the Civil War, he was Mayor of Charlottesville. At nineteen, when the Charlottesville Academy opened under Jefferson's patronage, Carr was both a student and an assistant instructor. When the Academy closed in 1820, Carr opened his own grammar school. Carr continued in educational work at least into the 1830s.