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d the possession of Richmond certain! Alas! this effort was not made. I can not recall those fatal moments without a real sinking of the heart. Campaign on the Peninsula, Prince de Joinville, 1862. General McClellan, in his testimony December 10, 1862, before the court martial in the Case of General McDowell, said: I have no doubt, for it has ever been my opinion, that the Army of the Potomac would have taken Richmond had not the corps of General McDowell been separated from it. It id of General McDowell joined the Army of the Potomac in the month of May, by the way of Hanover Court-House, from Fredericksburg, we would have had Richmond within a week after the junction. Court martial of General McDowell, Washington, December 10, 1862. Let us first inquire what was the size of this army so crippled for want of reenforcement, and then what the strength of that to which it was opposed. On April 30, 1862, the official report of McClellan's army gives the aggregate pres