Troopers from K Company

Pictured here are Privates Charles D. Huffman (left) and Fred A. Molton of Troop K, Third U.S. Volunteer Cavalry. They proudly stand before their tent at Camp George H. Thomas, Georgia. These men along with the rest of Troop K were armed with the carbine version of the Krag-Jorgensen rifle. Both men are wearing what appear to be 1883 enlisted fatigue blouses, sky blue trousers, and the darker brown shade leggings. Pvt. Molton is wearing his campaign hat in the fashionable "Montana Peak" style. Troop K, like the Second and Third Nebraska, never saw combat.

Photo is from the Nebraska State Historical Society collection. Some of this information is from The Fighting First Nebraska: Nebraska's Imperial Adventure in the Philippines, 1898-1899 by Thomas D. Thiessen.