CSA 12c, 10¢ greenish blue (4 margins, slight pre-use rumple) on cover to Lt. Col. C.W. Broadfoot, Weldon, N.C. $125.

Charles W. Broadfoot enlisted from Cumberland County at age 18 in June 1861 as a private in Company H (Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry), First Regiment North Carolina Volunteers. When the regiment disbanded in November, Broadfoot reenlisted in Company D, Forty-third Regiment North Carolina Troops. Promoted to lieutenant, he was assigned to General Theophilus H. Holmes’s staff. In 1864 he became lieutenant colonel of the First Regiment North Carolina Junior Reserves (Seventieth Regiment North Carolina Troops), made up of 17 and 18-year-old boys. The regiment fought at Bentonville and surrendered near High Point on May 1, 1865.