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when the army was sent off to the Peninsula there should have been a force sufficient retained to defend the capital. He (Chandler) had the evidence of nine Major Generals, taken before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, in which they said it was absolutely necessary to retain a force here for the defence of Washington. Gen. Richardson, in his sworn statement, said it would require 40,000 men and a corps of 60,000 men to stop the movements of the enemy above or below the city. General Franklin thought that from 35,000 to 50,000 men would be necessary, and the others said that from 50,000 to 75,000 must be left here for the proper defence of the place. When General McClellan went to Fortress Monroe it was found that he had not left a solitary regiment here except the Nineteenth, and that he had not left a solitary gun on wheels for the defence of the capital. Had this gone on, the enemy would have taken the capital before the month of April; but the President interposed