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Box 3

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Louisa Hayhurst letters, 1864 August

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSS 7928 Series 2
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1864 August
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 7928, Edward M. Hayhurst correspondence and other material / Hayhurst family letters and other material

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