{"product_id":"exile-in-richmond-the-confederate-journal-of-henri-garidel-a-nation-divided-new-studies-in-civil-war-history","title":"Exile in Richmond: The Confederate Journal of Henri Garidel (A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Exile in Richmond: The Confederate Journal of Henri Garidel (A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History) (Hardcover, 465 pages) – University of Virginia Press, 2001. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eExpelled 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrapped 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   About the Author   \u003cp\u003eMichael 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeslie Jean Roberts is Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Southern Indiana.\u003c\/p\u003e                                           ","brand":"Michael Bedout Chesson, Leslie Jean Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46069987442922,"sku":"9780813920184","price":62.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/81n-r99H6KL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781235804","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/exile-in-richmond-the-confederate-journal-of-henri-garidel-a-nation-divided-new-studies-in-civil-war-history","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}