Contains the following type of materials: diary. Contains information pertaining to the following war: Civil War -- Western Theater. Contains information pertaining to the following military unit: 7th Iowa Infantry Regiment. General description of the collection: Simon Helmick papers include excerpts from his diary transcript while with Company C, 7th Iowa Infantry, from Borregard, Mississippi, to La Grange, Tennessee (from November 1, 1862, to October 27, 1863). It describes the movements of his regiment, rations, turning in old muskets, drawing new Springfield rifles, and destroying the town of Tullahoma, Mississippi, because confederate guerillas wounded two of their men.
