Contains the following types of materials: correspondence, awards / certificates, organizational documents, leaflets / brochures, diary / journal, maps / charts, photos, ephemera, and scrapbook. Contains information pertaining to the following war and time period: Civil War, 1861-1877. Contains information pertaining to the following military unit: 22nd New York Infantry Regiment. General description of the collection: Walter Phelps Jr. papers include letters to wife, diaries, maps, muster rolls of 22nd New York Volunteers, scrapbook of newspaper clippings, private diary with sketches, clippings, reports on battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg, Life Insurance Policy, and Journals, 1873-1877.
