
Agreeable to promise I take the few leisure moments allotted to me to drop you a few lines. We started from Washington on the 31st of March and arrived at Omaha Neb on the 19th of April and layed over their there for orders. And then started for Fort D. A. Russell Wyoming and remained their there a few days and started on a march through the Country for Chug Creek about 50 miles from the Fort.

We have a very pretty little Camp with one or two exceptions that is shade and lumber to fix it up in the proper maner manner , it is situated in a Valley and near the Creek. the Camp is entirely surrounded by water. I wish you to go to the Paymaster General for me and request him to see if he can do anything in regard to that Bounty claim of mine, in the hands of Jno H Hodgest Winchester Virginia. and if he cannot I wish you to take it in hands and collect it if possible and you shall be rewarded for your trouble. I will close for the present
Your Friend Thomas Bainbridge Co "K 5th Cavalry Wyoming Territory Fort D. A. Russell