The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-22
RnC1,EDFoR GEN.KEARNY AT12
SCVI RMANN,iOUNGEST
.u,,, van VETERAN, hurried.
r.uous Fighters Love by Clearing.
w" ~ horseback Ra,Ine That Halted the
S,,a Played Franks With Lincoln
a, whItc House Many Pay Tribute

~.
,,.b,ine phi kearny's bugler, drummer
~, ~, the For,icth New York-the Mozart
w .,uent and playmate OF President
Fs1",n,. .on Tad, took place last night
an .,, Ia, h. home. 100 Fast l0ith street, where
~, dad ON Wednesday.
e w %." of the Mozart regiment and
,',nn. ol the famous red diamond patch
| '',tl war days attended the service.
~ n.,,,a,- Of the East Side, friends OF MIR.
lV .''.n,ann when he was leader in DE
the H. b. Claiiin Post q. A. H.,
M, of the Union Veteran Legion 81
p' ''aplyn and fellow customs inspectors
"o,a Ina, tribute to Mr. Schurmann.
ia va, So years old and claimed with
,'od deal of PRIDE to be perhaps the young
..,eran of the civil war. just before
e, .. Hsd he told the story Of his fighting
.Asr Gen kearny and how he went
,hs White House TO play with Tad Lin
'' IN rho early part of 1851 Gus Schurmann
drunning away for dear life in Chat
| t,m suare, a boy of II. Recruits were
.ppins by the thousand then, and the
tay turned out with drum bigger than
Sm.elf 10 help stir enthusiasm. He was
/ D.,niny his living in those days working
vmil in Centre street, run by
II, FLOCK. afterward proprietor OF the
rarsreasjonal Hotel at Washington. When
-,rI was slack he went to City Hall Square
,s,h q shine box and competed with the
h.o,bblack brigade at three cents shine.
IA was taken into the Forty-second
New York. the Tammany regiment, after
Ia drlmmed himself into fame at Chatham
| SQUARE, but he wasn't treated well there
and he applied to Col. Riley Of the Mo-
,,ts in which the father OF Richard Wat
AN Glider was chaplain, for a place as q
( drummer boy.
couldn't think OF it, said Col. Riley.
You're too young
/ The boy began to cry and the Colonel
reuted All the men laughed at him be-
a,se his drum was fully as big as himself,
| hut he went with the regiment when 1t
| NJ, Yonkers on July 4, 1861, for Washing
ton,
|. was at Harrison's Landing that he dis
upelished himself Gen. Mcclellan set day
to review the army, and Gen. Phil Kearny,
commanding the First Division, called for q
drummer boy to act as his orderly. Gus
,,s picked out. Kearny was then the idol
d the army. He gave the drummer boy
silver bugle and had him put on powerful
White horse called Babe over whose back
qua had hard time to stretch his short
sgs
In the course OF the days maneuvers
The staff gaoped over rough field broken
By an ugly ravine. Gen Kearny, a superb
horeman. took the ravine with a mighty
hound and looked around to see II his aides
we're following. They were not, except
the bugler Gus tugged at the big white
horse, but he might as we'll have tried to
stop a railroad train. 1t jumped the gully
and landed, Schurmann pale and half sense
less.
Gen. Kearny looked at the boy and smiled
rimly. In the evening he told young
Schurmann to report at headquarters and to
consider himself as the Generals orderly.
,i t,A! s sddpM I' Sohurmann. in battle he
sed my back as writing desk to scratch
Cd dispatches and he used to curse me
Ioundly il l trembed. At the second battle
Of Bull Run mimic balls and shells whistled
all around us and shook like leaf. When
told the General | vas little scared he
said; Never get frightened Never get
frightened at anything, and the bristles OF
his mustache rose heavenward.
After Kearny's death at Chantilly, the
boy served as busler for Gems. B!rney,
S,oneman and Sickles. He was at Gettys-
burg VI hen solid shot took of Gen. Sickles's
leg. 1t was with Gen. Sickles that he met
the Lncolns at Bell Plains. The Presi-
dent, Mrs. Lincoln and Thomas, CIad),
IN oil Wo ohtp Mt IN,
Opay the commanding General a visit.
Who is that child?' asked the President,
noticing the small orderly.
oh, that's Gus Kearny's bugle boy"
aid an officer.
Don't you think it's shame to have
such children in the army?" said Mrs Lin
coin to the President.
fighter. He was nearly killed while at
oneman's side. Besides, he rode with
hearny and you know what that means
Tad Lincoln ran up then and stood ad-
hiring the boy orderly in his uniform and
lrappngs. AS | look back" said Mr..
S,churmann when he told the story to his
inends 4 can see that l must have been
that time was an accomplished horseman,
could blow the bugle and beat the drum
md svagger like real soldier, The men
ad presented me with a roam mustang
e!ed Pompey that had formerly been
hidden by Gen. Mostly the guerrilla, and
% that cavorted around until Tad could
ha stand it any longer and persuaded
cavalryman to lend him his mount
he saved Tad from being run away with
ma Mrs. Lincoln asked Gen. Sickles for
nm My first night at the White House
snail never forget" said MIR. Schurmann.
We kept up our racket until Mrs. Lincoln
aled us and told us the President was tired
una needed rest AS she opened the door
q the chamber where the President, Mrs.
Lincoln and Tad slept saw the great head OF
A,e lincoln peeking out from under long
VMe nightcap. Tad slept in a crib by his
mothers bed and Mrs. Lincoln showed me
mo no guest chamber. The contrast Of
ns splendor with my humble lodgings Of
aprevious years, when l had slept for the
Most part on the soft side of hard board.
50 overwhelming that even now the
ouent OF guest chamber overawes me.
,..At the public receptions we were usually
nohcSing around Mr.. Lincoln's chair, and
ae cav ! stumbled and fell against the
pp rd1 Duke Alexis who was paying the
resident visit. ! fear ! wasn't much
e"eu oy the misadventure."
cvh OF the most dramatic incidents in
S ,Nhurmann's visit to the Lincolns
No. Ills meeting wi h j. Wilkes Booth. Both
~ ~. ana Mrs Lincoln were fond of the
ntr ana they gave the former Bowery
.oSoRck many a treat.
Che night at the Washing ton Theater,
uloVes, said Mr.. ShurTnann, there
~ stirring drama called the Marble
~ IN which a dark handsome man