Walter Phelps, Jr.

After College in Troy, NY, he was a captain’s clerk in the US Navy, sailed around South America to California in 1849, and was briefly a miner there. He returned East and in 1860 he was a 28 year old clerk in the lumber business living in Queensbury in Warren County, NY. He enrolled for war service at Troy, NY on 16 May 1861 and mustered as Colonel of the 22nd New York Infantry at it's organization on 6 June 1861 for two-years service.

In compliance with orders from General Hatch, I assumed command of his brigade Sunday, September 14, [1862] at 10 a.m. The column of General Hooker's Corps was then moving through Frederick toward Middletown on the pike.

He led the brigade at Fredericksburg in December and at Chancellorsville in May 1863, and was honorably mustered out of service with his regiment at the end of their 2-year term on 19 June 1863 in Albany, NY. He was honored by brevet to Brigadier General of Volunteers to date from 13 March 1865.

By 1870 he was the manager of an iron furnace at North East in Dutchess County, NY. He died in Bennington, VT at age 45 while on a visit to a foundry there.

His service basics from Heitman1 and the State of New York.2 The quote above from his Report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1870, and his bio sketch from the Green-Wood Cemetery. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

10/29/1832; Hartford, CT

02/28/1878; Bennington, VT; burial in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY