Title: Exile in Richmond : the Confederate journal of Henri Garidel /
Authors: Garidel, Henri, 1815-1878.; Chesson, Michael B., 1947-; Roberts, Leslie Jean, 1946-
Publisher: University Press of Virginia,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Garidel, Henri, Diaries.; Catholics Virginia Richmond Diaries.; Catholics Louisiana New Orleans Diaries.; United States History Personal narratives, Confederate.; Richmond (Va.) History Personal narratives.; Richmond (Va.) History Social aspects.; United States History Social aspects.
Abstract: Expelled from occupied New Orleans by Federal forces after refusing to pledge loyalty to the Union, Henri Garidel remained in exile from his home and family from 1863 to 1865. Lonely, homesick, and alienated, the French-Catholic Garidel, a clerk in the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance, was a complete outsider in the wartime capital of Richmond. In his faithfully kept diary, Garidel relates the trials and discomforts--physical, emotional, spiritual, and professional--of life in a city entirely foreign to him. Civil War Richmonders were predominantly white, evangelical Protestants in a relatively small, insular city. His living quarters devolved from a private home shared with his family in cosmopolitan New Orleans to a cramped, cold rooming house away from everything familiar.
Contents: 1. "I Shall Remember That Train Trip" 18 May 1863 -- 2. "This View Is Magnificent" 6 September-12 October 1863 -- "The Alarm Is Sounding on All Sides" 24 March-19 May 1864 -- "Richmond Is Truly Surrounded" 20 May-26June 1864 -- "Early Must Be in Washington" 27 June-3 August 1864 -- "That Scoundrel Farragut" 4 August-7 October 1864 -- "An Excellent Bureau Chief" 15 November-31 December 1864 -- "That Is the Last Straw for Me" 1-31 anuary 1865 -- "Charleston Has Been Evacuated" 1-28 February 1865 TEN "A Vile Month in Richmond" 1-31 March 1865 -- "The Celebrated Lincoln" 1-30 April 1865 -- "We Were Simply Crushed" 1 May-27 June 1865 -- Ordnance Officers, Army of Northern Virginia.