Rank: Private
Unit: C Co, 2d Cavalry
Reenlisted: September 15, 1865 in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Date of birth: 18 July 1843
Hometown: Sorel, Canada
Campaign: Plains Indian War (post Civil War)
Died: 21 December 1866
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Killed in action
Location of fatality: Peno Creek, Dakota Territory (Wyoming)
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Place of interment: Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency in Big Horn County, Montana
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Notes: He stood 5’8″ with grey eyes, brown hair, and fair complexion.
When the remains from Fort Phil Kearney arrived in 1905 at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery for reburial the cemetery register listed 97 “Unknown US Soldiers,” and 7 named. Thomas Horrigan is most likely one of the unknown reburials.