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.
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.
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