Posted on 03/15/2025 7:13:43 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
BALTIMORE, Tuesday, March 14.
A returned Union prisoner, who reached Annapolis to-day, direct from Richmond, communicates same interesting intelligence in relation to the state of affairs at Richmond and SHERIDAN's movements. He says he was confined in Castle Thunder, and, through the friends of Union citizens incarcerated there, obtained much information relative to events transpiring, about which Richmond papers are silent.
On Saturday night last Richmond was thrown into a state of intense excitement, by the announcement that SHERIDAN was near the city. The alarm bells were rung, and all the Home Guards, and every available man that could be spared, was hurried off to repel the Yankees, who were said to be at Beaver Mills Aqueduct, on the James River, some twenty miles from the city, destroying the canal, the main feeder to Richmond. The excitement continued all night, and increased to a panic throughout Sunday, and down to Monday morning, when he left, the alarm still prevailed. It was understood that SHERIDAN had succeeded in the destruction of the aqueduct, blowing it up with gunpowder, and it would take at least six months to repair the damage done by him during Sunday afternoon. PICKETT's division pasted Castle Thunder in great haste on the way to meet SHERIDAN. There was a ferry near the aqueduct, and it was believed that SHERIDAN's purpose was to cross the James, and strike the Danville road near the coal fields, where there is an expensive bridge, destroy that, and thus complete the destruction of communication of Richmond, and then make a junction with GRANT.
Movements indicating a preparation for an abandonment of Richmond have been in progress for some time. The heavy machinery for manufacturing iron has been removed; also the machinery of their percussion-cap manufactory;
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