Rank: Sergeant
Unit: A Trp, 2d Cavalry
Enlisted: November 8, 1881 in New York, New York. He was 32.
Date of birth: 1849
Hometown: Donegal, Ireland
Campaign: Plains Indian War (post Civil War)
Died: 24 June 1884
Age at death: 34 or 35
Cause of death: Wound received from being thrown from horse
Location of fatality: Helena, Montana Territory
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Place of interment: Old Saint Mary’s Catholic Cemetery in Helena, Montana
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