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e writes. He has found his proper level, and all the lying reports which he can manufacture between this and dooms day cannot raise him above it. He came here to take the city of Richmond. He had, first and last — from Fortress Monroe to Mechanicville — as documents furnished to the committee of inquiry by the War Office, substantiated by the Assistant Secretary of War, prove beyond all doubt, 155,000 men. He was beaten in every battle, from Williamsburg to Malvern. Lincoln found him at Westover, or Shirley, with but 80,000 men. What had become of all the rest? Had they sunk into the earth, or melted into the air? They had sunk into the earth, victims to the bayonets and the shots of the Confederate troops, or to the diseases of the climate, aggravated by incessant exposure, and unremitting toil in ditching his way to Richmond. At last, only because it was necessary to withdraw our troops to repel invasion from another quarter, he was permitted to slink away with the miserable r