Some apprehensions are felt by a few for the safety of this
city, as it is supposed that all the troops have been withdrawn. This is
not so, however. From ten to fifteen thousand men could be concentrated
herein twenty-four hours. Richmond is not in half the danger that Washington
is.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 150
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