Exile in Richmond: The Confederate Journal of Henri Garidel

by Leslie Jean Roberts

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920183
• ISBN13: 9780813920184
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 465 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher