This letter is undated but it would have been when Geo began his enlistment. Other letters from him were data 1865. I don't know how much earlier this would have been. It is difficult to read and I can't make it all out. They are so fragile I avoid handling them and scan them in a protective sleeve (they are stored under glass).
I picked this one because it speaks of a child's death. I believe the first paragraph says:
I rec'd your last letter a sprig of Evergreen from the grave of our little May. I was glad you sent it although I need nothing to remind me of her - our first great happiness and first great grief; for greener yet than the moss that grows upon her grave, is the memory I cherish of our first born, child, so early lost. Although years have passed since then, her angel face and loving ways are fresh in my mind, as when I took her for the last time in my arms and laid her in her little narrow bed.
On edit: corrected some typos in the transcription.
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