US Soldier killed at the Fetterman Massacre. Pvt Burke Served with Company A, 18th US Infantry Regiment. Soldiers killed with Fetterman were first buried at Ft Phil Kearny. In 1905, post burials were moved to the Custer Nat'l Cemetery. Fetterman's men were buried in graves numbered 15-49 and 108-144.∼Pvt.; "A" Co., 2nd Batt., 18th U.S. Inf.
Final Statement
I Certify That Thomas Burke a Private of Captain William J. Fetterman's Company "A" of the 2nd Batt. 18 Regiment of U.S. Inf., born in Cork in the state of Ireland aged 25 years, Five feet three inches high, dark complexion, grey eyes, black hair, and by profession a Laborer, was enlisted by Capt Walcott at Brooklyn on the twenty first day of March, eighteen hundred and Sixty six, to serve for three years, and is now entitled to discharge by reason of Killed in action near Fort Phillip Kearney, D.T., December 21st 1866.
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 9 named. Thomas Burke is most likely one of the unknown reburials.
Final Statement
I Certify That Thomas Burke a Private of Captain William J. Fetterman's Company "A" of the 2nd Batt. 18 Regiment of U.S. Inf., born in Cork in the state of Ireland aged 25 years, Five feet three inches high, dark complexion, grey eyes, black hair, and by profession a Laborer, was enlisted by Capt Walcott at Brooklyn on the twenty first day of March, eighteen hundred and Sixty six, to serve for three years, and is now entitled to discharge by reason of Killed in action near Fort Phillip Kearney, D.T., December 21st 1866.
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 9 named. Thomas Burke is most likely one of the unknown reburials.
US Soldier killed at the Fetterman Massacre. Pvt Burke Served with Company A, 18th US Infantry Regiment. Soldiers killed with Fetterman were first buried at Ft Phil Kearny. In 1905, post burials were moved to the Custer Nat'l Cemetery. Fetterman's men were buried in graves numbered 15-49 and 108-144.∼Pvt.; "A" Co., 2nd Batt., 18th U.S. Inf.
Final Statement
I Certify That Thomas Burke a Private of Captain William J. Fetterman's Company "A" of the 2nd Batt. 18 Regiment of U.S. Inf., born in Cork in the state of Ireland aged 25 years, Five feet three inches high, dark complexion, grey eyes, black hair, and by profession a Laborer, was enlisted by Capt Walcott at Brooklyn on the twenty first day of March, eighteen hundred and Sixty six, to serve for three years, and is now entitled to discharge by reason of Killed in action near Fort Phillip Kearney, D.T., December 21st 1866.
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 9 named. Thomas Burke is most likely one of the unknown reburials.
Final Statement
I Certify That Thomas Burke a Private of Captain William J. Fetterman's Company "A" of the 2nd Batt. 18 Regiment of U.S. Inf., born in Cork in the state of Ireland aged 25 years, Five feet three inches high, dark complexion, grey eyes, black hair, and by profession a Laborer, was enlisted by Capt Walcott at Brooklyn on the twenty first day of March, eighteen hundred and Sixty six, to serve for three years, and is now entitled to discharge by reason of Killed in action near Fort Phillip Kearney, D.T., December 21st 1866.
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 9 named. Thomas Burke is most likely one of the unknown reburials.
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