PANIC IN RICHMOND: DIRECT FROM THE REBEL CAPITAL; Intense Excitement and Alarm Caused by Sheridan’s Operation (3/15/1865)

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...