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CHICAGO (AP) -- Diverted ambulances. Cancer treatment delayed. Electronic health records offline. These are just some of ripple effects of an apparent

Kellogg was the only reporter allowed to accompany Custer, whose 7th Cavalry rode west into Montana Territory, where the holdout Native Americans gathered in defiance of an Army order to report to reservations, determined to continue the life of chasing the last of the roaming buffalo herds.

On June 25, 1876, one of America's most iconic historical events took place when General George A. Custer, with five companies of the 7th Calvary, was wiped out on a rise above the Little Big Horn River. The news was received with shock by a nation ready to celebrate the centennial of its independence. How could this have happened--since no white man survived the battle--to perhaps the most celebrated and daring Union general of the Civil War?

The Battle of Little Big Horn, aka Custer’s Last Stand, took place almost 150 years ago in late June of 1876. George Armstrong Custer was no stranger to Brainerd, and former Brainerd resident Mark Kellogg was the only reporter to die in the battle between Native Americans and the U.S. Army.

Mark Kellogg, a journalist from La Crosse, traveled with George Armstrong Custer to his fateful end 146 years ago.