On June 12, 1876, journalist Marcus Kellogg, traveling with Custer’s 7th Cavalry, filed one of his last dispatches before being killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Kellogg was a telegraph operator-turned-journalist, moving to Bismarck in Dakota Territory in 1873 where he was hired by the Bismarck Tribune. He met George Custer on a train returning from the east. Custer invited Kellogg to come with him as his Cavalry left for Little Big Horn. Neither survived.
