San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-07
ON THE LOITER
THE UNDYING FAME OF HULLY
MCGEE.

ty and sensation incidental to the
first few days in long trousers had
passed over, Hully MCGEE gave his
vivid Imagination the right Of way
over the main line to eternal and
immortal glory, pulled the throttle
wide open and let her tear! He
set out to win his undying fame
by the military route, and when
the complex mechanism in his
thinkatorium got down to making
thousand revolutions per minute,
this is the modest picture that it
evolved.
In the foreground stood Captain
Hully McGee putting his company,
the Kidville Kids, through the
various features of skirmish drill
with blank ammunition. Alamo
plaza, where the drill was being
given, was one vast sea of human
ity. The walks around tho park
were filled with the gorgeous beauty
of the town, who waved handker-
chiefs and applauded until the gal
liant Captain Hully McGee's blood
chilled with stirring enthusiasm.
On this occasion, Sunday afternoon,
when the members of the kidville
Kids did not have to perform the
arduous duties falling to the lot of
office and errand boys, there were
thirty-two men in line. Their
guns, 22-calibre repeating rifles
with light steel bayonets, glistened
in the sunlight, and their belts,
with 200 rounds of ammunition,
each, gave the company a very
formidable appearance. Having
covered themselves with glory be-
fore this sea of turned up faces
Captain Hully MCGEE, under deaf
ening applause, marched his COM
pany off the plaza to Turtle Hole,
a bend in the San Antonio river,
near Edmond's grove, where half
an hours target practice at turtles
in the water was INDUCED in.
While here encamped for the
afternoon, a Western Union mes
senger approached on horseback
and delivered to Captain Hully
MCGEE a telegram from the COVER
nor ordering his company on the
next train to the Red River
where the United States were
about to break into Texas.
Who can describe the inward feel
ing of delight of the gallant officers
and gallant privates of the Kid
VILE Kids! From Turtle Hole
to the armory was made in
a forced march. Here several
thousand rounds of ammuni-
ton were ordered expressed to
the scene of action and after an
exhibition drill that set the ex-
cited town wild, the gallant Kid
vile Kids, now with nine files of
four and the proper complement of
officers, embarked for the scene of
the fray. Every preparation was
made for a severe struggle and at
last the United States regulars,
nearly 1000 strong, arrived. That
night this formidable force was
augmented to 5000 men. Captain
Hully McGee realized that
some tall fighting had
to be done. He scarcely
expected to rout the enemy, but
hoped to keep them engaged until
the Belknap rifles came to rein
force him on the next train. At
day break the following morning
the battle began in earnest. Three
companies of federal infantry
walked into a neatly laid trap and
were badly cat to pieces, the re-
peating rifles of gallant Captain
HuIly MCGee's men doing deadly
execution. The federal command
err now appeared to have lost
his head, and left the flying artil-
lery unguarded while he withdrew
his forces to another position.
With a fierce rush the Kidville
Kids stormed the mounted battery.
Man and horse went down before
the terrible fire of the % calibre
repeating rifle and the battery was
taken. Just as a grand effort was
being made to recapture
the artillery, Captain Hully
McGee had the guns turned upon
the advancing columns, moving
down the enemy with shrapnel and
shell, until the commander was
forced to retreat to re-establish or
der and organization in his dilapl-
dated ranks. Two more desperate
charges were made by the regulars,
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