CSA 11c, 10¢ bluish green tied small clear RAPIDANN STATION VA circular datestamp on commercially-made envelope imprinted OFFICIAL BUSINESS with “UN” penned in front of it, to Colonel Jno C. Higginbotham (sic), Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Va. UNLISTED IN CSA CATALOG. Although we do not know the department source, this deserves a mention in a future catalog. $250.

John Carlton Higgenbottom (1842-1864) lived in what is now Upshur County, West Virginia. He attended school at Lynchburg College in the Class of 1862, but left in 1861 to raise a company of soldiers. Enlisted as captain of Company A, 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment, on May 27, 1861. He fought in one of the first battles of the war, at Rich Mountain on July 7, 1861, and sustained a wound. Sustained a flesh wound in the leg during Jackson's victory at McDowell. He was wounded in the shoulder during Jackson’s victory at Cedar Mountain on August 9, 1862. 
Twenty days later, he was more severely wounded at the Battle of Second Manassas. He was hit three times in the thigh and once in the groin. That October, Higgenbottom was promoted to lieutenant colonel for his gallantry.
Promoted to colonel on June 13, 1863. He was also wounded at Gettysburg. He was shot through the heart and killed May 10, 1864, at Spotsylvania Court House, Va. NB: On the gravestone, the name is Higgenbottom; in military papers it is spelled Higginbotham.