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of Richardson and Sedgwick and sent them back to Yorktown. Then came the long stay on the Chickahominy and then McClellan's heart failed him. The report says: Gen. McClellan continued calling for reinforcements, representing that the force of the enemy in his front was superior to his own. and that the force under Gen. McDowell would do more for the protection of Washington, if sent to his army, than in any other position in which it could be placed. In a letter written on the 21st of May. he asks that Gen. McDowell's corps he sent to him by water rather than by land as the more expeditions mode, and that he and his forces be explicitly placed under his orders, "in the ordinary way. " --He closes his letter by saying: I believe there is a great struggle before this army, but I am neither dismayed nor discouraged. I wish to strengthen its force as much as I can but in any event, I shall fight it with all the skill and caution and determination that I possess. And I t