Letters to/from soldiers before battle

[Jenny]

I'm doing my own searches online but am wondering if there's a better way to find letters to/from soldiers at FAL before they departed on their march. 

Thanks
Jenny

[Kentishman]

Jenny, by 8 June 1876 the regiment had only reached as far as the Powder River where a base camp was established. This gave men the opportunity to write letters, and I have reproduced verbatim the one sent by Trumpeter Henry Dose to his wife at Fort Abraham Lincoln. I thought that this may be of interest. See - www.menwithcuster.co.uk - A Trumpeter and the Girl he left Behind - on the Other Biographies page. His young son, Harry, had died of scarlet fever just eleven days before the Dakota Column marched out of FAL. Dose was killed at LBH.

[Jenny]

This is wonderful. Thank you. I've been having pretty good luck coming up with letters, even those written by relatives to the soldiers (addressed to FAL) that were never delivered.

J