Clement Lounsberry, Bismarck Tribune

[Diane Merkel]

Here's an excerpt from an article about the history of The Bismarck Tribune, including a mention of Mark Kellogg. Some think that Clement Lounsberry was the "C.L." whose report of Custer's funeral at West Point appeared in Harper's.

In fall 1878, Huntley and Jewell arrived in Bismarck with $8.35 between them. They met with Clement Lounsberry, founder and editor of the Tribune, who convinced them they should buy his paper instead of going into competition with him. Lounsberry was depressed because he felt responsible for the death of his friend, Mark Kellogg, who was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn two years earlier. Due to a wound he received in the Civil War, Lounsberry, as a Tribune reporter, was unable to accompany Col. Custer in pursuit of Sitting Bull and sent Kellogg in his place.

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[crzhrs]

I thought Lounsberry was ill or is wife was and couldn't go on the campaign . . .