Sorry, no pictures with a Krag. Below are the only military pictures I know of. I am not sure when/where the first picture was taken. I am assuming it was during his first enlistment and was taken in Manila, Philippines (he also was sent to China for the Boxer Rebellion). He is wearing his Army Stetson hat and some new clothes he bought for a striking picture for back home. He had left for the Army without telling family until he wrote a letter that started out "I suppose you know by now that I am in the Army".  He was a private and was a bugler. One of my uncles has the bugle, which I would at least like to get a picture of.
He was later a recruiter for the Great War and enlisted himself as a captain of a cavalry company. I believe the second picture would have been from that time period. His company was switched to a bombardment unit. He was honorably discharged at his request because as captain he could not perform the mathematics required for canon trajectory.

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