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apital was besieged by a force at no time half that of the United States. In December the nation began to clamor for a movement, and the Committee on the Conduct of the War urged the necessity for such a movement. The President and Cabinet were in favor of some forward movement, and they were assured by Gen. McClellan that a move would be made very soon; that he never intended to go into winter quarters. And he did not. Our brave men spent the winter in canvas tents. At last, in January, the President gave the order "forward !" and those glorious events took place at Forts Donelson and Henry, Newbern, &c. The "do nothing strategy" seemed to give way, and the weeks and days of spades and pick-areas to be over. On the 22d of February the army of the Potomac was ordered to move, but it was not ready.--At last, on the 10th of March, it did move, under the protest of its commender. On the 10th of March, that army numbered 230,000 men by the muster roll. They marched to M