The Krag carbine, Madsenshooter mentioned, that recently was broken-down and sold for parts on ebay, belonged to someone in Virginia. He described it as an "1899 or possibly 1898 carbine". I am guessing that the receiver was so corroded that maybe the date and serial number could not be read. The badly cracked and water damaged stock was an 1899 'long fore-arm' type. I posted a picture of the broken, corroded and badly worn or filed 1902 carbine sight on the KCA forum ('flood sight').