xT. 51.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 471 
TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 
CAMBRIDGE, January 15, 1862. 
I do not like to write to you much about the war, 
and that is much reason why I have not sooner replied 
to yours of December 9. 
My brother-in-law and his cousin are both officers 
in Burnside’s expedition, which we expect will do 
something. 
Mrs. Gray and I send warmest New Year greet- 
ings to you and Mrs. E., and hope you may feel all 
right and country safe in 1863. 
February 20. 
Bravo for Illinois, to which victory at Fort Donel- 
son is due, and bravo for Tennessee and Alabama 
full of Union men! Does not your old Union blood 
rise? Pray, now drop all your let-treason-alone, do- 
nothing-disorganizing notions, and go in for the coun- 
try, the whole country, reinstate it first, and then we 
will all go in and make it what it should be. The un- 
generous conduct of England shows what a condition 
we should be in as a fraction, and she playing off one 
portion against the other, and bullying both. 
I pray Congress to put on taxes, five per cent di- 
rect on property and income, and heavy indirect be- 
sides. What is property! I would fight till every 
cent is gone, and would offer my own life freely; so 
I do not value the lives or property of rebels above my 
own. God bless you. 
May 22. 
A most lovely spring here. We all flourish and 
prosper, and rejoice in the strengthening of our na- 
tional power, and advancing restoration of the Union, 
