FROM GEN. SHERIDAN: Enormous Destruction of Rebel Property; The James River Canal Demolished as far East as Goochland (3/18/1865)

[OFFICIAL.] WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, March 17, 1865 -- 3 P.M. Maj.-Gen. SHERIDAN reports, on the 15th inst., from the bridge of the Richmond and Fredericks- burgh Railroad, across the South Anna River, that having destroyed the James River Canal as far to the east as Goochland, he marched up the Virginia Central Railroad at Tollsville, and destroyed it down to Beaver Dam station, totally destroying fifteen miles of the road. Gen. CUSTER was then sent to Ashland, and Gen. BEVIN to the South Anna bridges, all of which have been destroyed. Gen. SHERIDAN says the amount of property destroyed in...