Exile in Richmond
Subtitle: the Confederate journal of Henri Garidel
By: edited by Michael Bedout Chesson and Leslie Jean Roberts.
Contributors: Chesson, Michael B., 1947-; Roberts, Leslie Jean, 1946-
Series: A nation divided
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Garidel, Henri, 1815-1878 -- Diaries; Catholics -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Diaries; Catholics -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Diaries; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate; Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
Genres: Diaries.; Personal narratives, Confederate.; Personal narratives.
Description: "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 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.".

"Trapped in Richmond for the last two years of the conflict and a witness to the eventual Federal occupation of the city, Garidel made daily entries that offer a striking and realistic blend of Southern domestic and political life during the Civil War. From his candid remarks about slavery and race, gender issues, military history, immigration, social class and structure, and religion, Henri Garidel's readers gain a revealing human picture of a major turning point in American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-436) and index.
A translation of Garidel's unpublished diary, originally in French.