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to notify their next of kin. Used to be you could tape money to the postcard or letter and it would be replace with a stamp by the postal people.
They usually just wrote one letter at a time and sent them when the messenger was available.
To get recruited you had to go to a recruitment office and you had to be 17 or older. When the US. was short on soldiers, they started drafting people. The men of the house would receive a letter that told them to join the army.
With my own son in the Army, I have learned a lot about what soldiers want in a letter from home. I've written a detailed list of important details to put in your letters. Please read the article in the link below.
They could write a letter home to loved one but if they wrote bad stuff about the war they would have to change it to say its good and no bad and then that's how there was people back in England saying the war was good when it actually wasn't.