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...