CSA 8a, 2¢ pale red first printing with large to huge margins all around and tied neat blue target; no town postmark, used on long NEWSPAPER WRAPPER to I. Jarrett, Huntsville, N.C. with a couple vertical file folds, math figures, known correspondence, Ex Keeling, SCV $1,500. $650. LE

Isaac Jarratt was a soldier in the War of 1812, landholder, merchant, and slave trader in Montgomery, Ala., and Huntsville, N.C. The Jarratt Papers, 1832-1979, are housed in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. His son, Isaac Augustus Jarratt (1841-1890), of Huntsville, Conrads, and Fayetteville, N.C., was a planter, merchant, and distiller. The younger Jarratt received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1861 and served as a captain in Company C, 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, during the Civil War.