![]() ![]() "Oh, never mind," Lincoln said as he smiled. Lincoln, are you not annoyed by those boys?" Seward asked. Tad hugged his father, spoke to him briefly and then ran from the room. ![]() ![]() Later that day, Tad wanted to ask his father a question and burst into the Executive Office, where Lincoln was meeting with Secretary of State William Seward and Secretary of War Edwin M. Instead he entertained them with stories about his service in the Black Hawk War of 1832, in which Indians fought the Illinois state government. He hacked at various pieces of furniture and finally sawed away the banisters of the main stairway." When servants reported the vandalism to Lincoln, he called the boys to his study but never said a word about the damage. Styple writes that Tad, in an effort to impress Gus, "fetched a small hatchet, said to be the one that little George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree. The book, published in November, provides a look at the wartime White House where Lincoln and his wife, Mary, smiled on outrageous behavior by their children and allowed no one to discipline them. As the nation honors Lincoln's 190th birthday today, the book shows a side of Lincoln that is rarely remembered - that of an indulgent father. Styple - "The Little Bugler" - tells the story of the Civil War from the perspective of a boy who enlisted at age 12 and survived 10 battles. A new biography on Gus by historian William B. Gus Schurmann, one of the youngest soldiers to serve in the Union Army, was given a two-week furlough to go home with Tad as the boy's playmate. The commanding officer intervened to save Lincoln from the embarrassment of his son's outburst. "I want him to come home with me and teach me to ride and blow the bugle," Tad whined to his father, who seemed unable to deny his son anything. However, his son Tad refused to go home if his new friend, a bugler boy, couldn't come with him. President Lincoln had reviewed the troops outside Fredericksburg, Va., in April 1863 and was ready to leave. ![]()
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