USMA Class of 1899.
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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado), February 16, 1921
LIEUT. COL. M'DONOUGH, 44, DIES AT GENERAL HOSPITAL
Lieut. Col. Michael McDonough, 44 years old, retired army officer, died yesterday afternoon at the Fitzsimons General hospital at Aurora of tuberculosis. Colonel McDonough served in the world war as an instructor of the 114th engineer battalion at Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La. He was graduated from West Point in the class of 1899 as an army engineer, and remained at the school as an instructor in ordnance for several years. He was the author of "Technique of Modern Tactics," a volume which is used as a textbook at the army war college, and at the staff college. His body will be shipped from Denver tomorrow, and will be buried in the military cemetery at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Alice McDonough; a daughter, Alice, and a son, Robert J. McDonough, a student at the New Mexico Military academy.