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...