LES GALOCHES PENDANT LA GUERRE

Voici un article sur les brogans à semelles bois. Ces chaussures furent utilisées pendant la guerre des 1862 pour pallier aux problèmes d'approvisionnement.

Il existait grosso modo, une majorité de chaussures à semelles rigides, et quelques modèles à semelles articulées:


BROGAN "FOUNDRY" SHOES

Ca. 1860s. Measuring 14" in length and 5" in width ; square toed wooden soles averaging 1.5" thickness and 2.25" at the heels. .375" "O" interior marking on both inner soles. Used in foundry work of the time. Their size and their wooden soles suggest that they were designed to serve a protective function; their flap and buckle are suggestive of British origin and of the British flap-and-buckle brogans purchased by the Confederate government during the Civil War. Leather stiff and somewhat wrinkled near the toe; stitching tight and very similar to brogan stitching of that era; all rivets present, missing two nails. Else VG. A scarce and intriguing display piece.

Slave Shoe

This crude wooden and leather shoe was handmade by a slave and probably intended for slave use. The sole is hand carved and curved and is attached by the upper section by way of a leather strap that has been nailed over the seam. Although crude in appearance, the shoe was well-made and saved scarce resources such as leather. However, compared to a shoe today it would feel very awkward and uncomfortable.

1888 - Hard Times in the Confederacy

This historic 120+ year old ORIGINAL vintage article was carefully removed from the Century Magazine, published in 1888. Written by A.C. Gordon, the article is 16 pages long. Mr. Gordon documents the trials of the post-war Confederacy and especially the economic woes of the region. Included is a table of values of Confederate money adopted by the courts of Virginia after the war for convenience in settlements of transactions in that currency. The page size is 6 ¼ x 9 ¼ . (00002)


Condition: Article is in good condition with light age toning

Excerpt from the article:

“With emotions of mingled pain and pleasure, akin to those that come at hearing once again a familiar air, the echo of whose last cadence vanished years ago, so the reminiscences of the many makeshifts and expedients for maintaining life and a degree of comfort recur to the minds of those who, in the Southern Confederacy, struggled through the period embraced within the years 1861 and1865. The blood-stained battle-fields where the hosts of contending armies met in deadly conflict witnessed no finer examples of courage and self-abnegation than did the chimney sides and roof-trees of those times, where the ragged rebels had left wives and mothers and children and slaves to keep the household gods together, to raise the stint of corn and wine and oil, and to tend the flocks whereby they all might be clothed and fed.

“In February, 1864, it was officially announced that two hundred soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade were entirely without shoes. The statement indicates the great stress of poverty in respect to leather. The slave population in the farther South went barefoot in the summer and wore "wooden bottoms" in the winter. Men of the easiest circumstances, as easy circumstances then went, were forced to be content with shoes of the coarsest.To shoe the Army of Northern Virginia had made a dearth of leather in the South, and every method of economy was practiced to avoid further trouble on this score. The
"wooden bottoms" of the slaves resembled in some respects the wooden shoes of the French peasantry. The upper-leather was that of the ordinary shoe, and was fastened by means of small wrought-iron nails to a sole and heel cut carefully to fit the bottom of the foot from a solid block of cypress wood. Their novelty, when first introduced among the negroes, made captive the fancy of the children of both races ; and juvenile wooden bottomswere the rage for a long time.”

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Ca. 1860s. Measuring 14" in length and 5" in width ; square toed wooden soles averaging 1.5" thickness and 2.25" at the heels. .375" "O" interior marking on both inner soles. Used in foundry work of the time. Their size and their wooden soles suggest that they were designed to serve a protective function; their flap and buckle are suggestive of British origin and of the British flap-and-buckle brogans purchased by the Confederate government during the Civil War. Leather stiff and somewhat wrinkled near the toe; stitching tight and very similar to brogan stitching of that era; all rivets present, missing two nails. Else VG. A scarce and intriguing display piece.

Environs 1860. Mesurant 14 pouces (!) en longueur et 5 en largeur; semelles en bois à tètes carrées mesurant environs 1,5 pouces en grosseur et 2,25 au talon. ".375" et "0" marqué à l'interieur sur les deux semelles. Utilisées pour travail en fonderie de cette periode. Leur taille et les semelles en bois furent désignées pour une fonction protective; les boucles et les flaps suggèrent qu'ils sont d'origine englaise et du type "flap & buckle brogans" achetés par le gouvernement confédéré pendant la guerre civile. Etc etc"
Il est possible qu'elles aient étés utilisées en tant que chaussures, mais je pense plutot qu'elles servaient à protéger le autres chaussures contre les éffets destructifs de certains métiers tels que forgeron, etc... En tout cas, je ne ferais pas 2 kms à pieds avec ce genre de trucs à mes petons.