Seventh Cavalry

Bismarck Tribune reporter Mark Kellogg has a unique place in the story of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, or Greasy Grass. Though he died in the battle, his diary and newspaper dispatches record the movements of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry’s through Dakota and Montana territories in the spring of 1876.

The Seventh Cavalry will forever be connected to North Dakota. Formed in 1866, the Seventh patrolled the Great Plains to protect westward expansion.…