Louisa Goodspeed's Letter

In my last post I mentioned that Louisa Goodspeed wrote a letter to her son Herschell telling him of the death of his brother Theron Goodspeed at Spotsylvania. Louisa's great-grandson Harry had the original letter laminated, and then gave it to me many years ago. The letter is a family treasure, so I am transcribing it here, with Louisa's spelling, in its entirety:

Heman and Louisa Goodspeed

When Heman Goodspeed and his future wife Louisa Albright were very young children, both their families moved from the towns of their birth to more challenging frontier locations.