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Exile in Richmond: The Confederate Journal of Henri Garidel
Henri Garidel
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hardcover. Henri Garidel was expelled from occupied New Orleans by Federal forces after refusing to pledge loyalty to the Union. This is his diary from 1863 to 1865, in which he relates the trials and discomforts - physical, emotional, spiritual and professional - of life in a city foreign to him. Series: Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 544 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; BGHA; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 894.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Series
Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813920184
SKU
V9780813920184
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About Henri Garidel
MICHAEL BEDOUT CHESSON, Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, is the author of Richmond after the War, 1865-1890. LESLIE JEAN ROBERTS is Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Southern Indiana.
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