George Armstrong Custer
Coverage of George Armstrong Custer in the Nexus archive.
- AP's first journalist killed in action was at the Battle of Little Bighorn 150 years ago
The article commemorates Mark Kellogg, the first Associated Press journalist killed in action, who died at the Battle of Little Bighorn 150 years ago. Kellogg, embedded with Custer's troops, was reporting for The Bismarck Tribune and New York Herald when he was killed alongside Custer and his men.
- AP's first journalist killed in action was at the Battle of Little Bighorn 150 years ago
Mark Kellogg, a journalist for The Bismarck Tribune and New York Herald, was the first Associated Press journalist killed in action at the 150-year-old Battle of Little Bighorn. He was embedded with Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's troops, and his death marked the beginning of 38 AP journalists who have died on the job since 1876.
- The Importance of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry Regiment were defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a conflict that remains a contested symbol in American history. The battle, though small in scale, is considered iconic alongside events like Yorktown and Gettysburg.