Rank: Blacksmith
Unit: I Trp, 2d Cavalry
Enlisted: December 27, 1876 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Lieut. Woodward. He was 28.
Date of birth: 1848
Hometown: Utica, New York
Occupation prior to enlistment: Blacksmith
Campaign: Plains Indian War (post Civil War)
Died: July 30, 1878
Age at death: 29 or 30
Cause of death: Gunshot wound
Location of fatality: Miles City, Montana Territory
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Place of interment: Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana.
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Notes: Originally buried at Fort Keogh post cemetery, Montana Territory.
The Benton Weekly Record, Fort Benton, MT, 14 April 1883 – Soldiers Graves on the Prairie.
Fort Keogh–The burying ground of Fort Keough contains some suggestive and curious wooden slabs and two or three marble tombstones. One of these soldier’s ranches is inscribed to Dennis Hurley, I Co., 2d U.S. Cavalry, killed at Miles City, July 29, 1878, aged 28. A drunken desperado had killed a member of I Company, and in the melee which ensued between I company and the murderer’s gang, as was the rule in those vigilante days, Hurley met his death.