Scope and Contents Contains nine letters written by Reverend Isaac W. Hayhurst to his soldier son Edward, dated September-December 1862. The letters were written from the family home in Elyria, Ohio. Hayhurst discusses his work as a school teacher and Baptist minister, the welfare and activities of the family and various friends, the family garden, the war and the unit's movements, items or money sent to Tom or Edward or requests for certain items to be obtained and sent home, prospective visits...

Scope and Contents Contains fifteen letters from Isaac W. Hayhurst to his son Edward (serving in the Civil War) between July and October 1864. The letters were written after the Hayhurst family had moved to North Fairfield, Ohio (likely because father Hayhurst had been offered a higher-paying position as a minister there). Hayhurst talks about the family's concern for Edward and his brother Tommy out on the battlefield, the family's welfare, developments in the war, army finances, family activities, Edward's...

Scope and Contents Contains nine letters written by Isaac Hayhurst (with a few lines from mother Hayhurst) to his son Edward (recuperating in the hospital) between February and March 1865. The letters were written from the Hayhurst home in North Fairfield, Ohio. They discuss Edward's health and medical care, the health and welfare/activities of various family members (including movements of his soldier brother Thomas with their regiment), various enclosures or requests for mineral and fossil samples,...

Scope and Contents Contains ten letters written by Hayhurst to his son Edward during April 1865. The letters were all written from the Hayhurst homestead in North Fairfield, Ohio. Among other things, they discuss the 124th Ohio and Tommy's movements, the family's health and activities, tentative family plans for the future, local celebrations of Northern victories, investments, Lee's surrender and the end of the war, Lincoln's assassination and funeral, the actions of General Sherman, and the killing of John...

Scope and Contents Contains eleven letters written by Hayhurst to his son Edward between May and September 1865. The letters were all written from the Hayhurst homestead in North Fairfield, Ohio. They discuss Edward's hospital garden and possible discharge, father Isaac's investments, Tommy's movements with the 124th Ohio, requests for rock and fossil specimens, activities of neighbors and friends, the family's garden and health, Edward's discharge and post-war employment and lodgings, family visitors and...

Scope and Contents Contains eleven letters from Hayhurst to his wife Louisa/Lucy during August 1864. The letters were written while Hayhurst was with his son Edward in the Sherman Hospital (Nashville, Tennessee), while the latter was suffering from typhoid fever and the resulting ulcers and open sores on his body. The letters give a report of Edward's health and recovery about every other day of the month, and also discuss father Isaac's journey to the hospital, the medical staff and their care habits, the...

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Contains two letters written by Edward's younger brother Joseph (or Josie) to father Isaac Hayhurst on August 15 and 24, 1864. The letters were written from the Hayhurst homestead in North Fairfield, Ohio. They discuss the family's anxiety for Edward's health, family correspondence and visitors, the family garden, Josie's work and wages, substitute preachers in his father's absences, encouragement from mother Louisa, and the local teacher's institute.

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Contains a letter written by Hayhurst to her son Edward, dated December 20-21, 1862. The letter was written from the original family home in Elyria, Ohio. It discusses Edward's 29th birthday, the family's activities, the local weather, Edward's health/personal medical remedies and his experiments in cooking for himself in camp, encouragements in duty and good character, the possibility of the family moving to Fairfield, and includes enclosures.

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Contains two letters written by Hayhurst to her husband Isaac, dated August 9 and 11, 1864. The letters were written from the Hayhurst homestead in North Fairfield, Ohio, while Isaac was with Edward in the Sherman Hospital in Nashville (while the latter was suffering with typhoid fever and body ulcers). They discuss Edward's advances and declines in recovery, concern for Isaac's helath, family visitors and activities, news of neighbors (present and former) and their soldier sons.

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Certificate of disability written out for "Sergt. E. M. Hayhurst" by a Dr. J. (Bidwell?), dated April 12, 1864; it certifies Hayhurst "unfit for duty and not able to travel" for at least twenty days due to typhoid ulcers.