canvas shoes?

[Gary of CA]

Here's something I've never seen in any other book or at any museum. Can someone help me with this please? I'm sure Converse wasn't around back then.

Campt at Franklin, Tenn. May 12, 1863

...Today is just three years since I asked a certain young lady to share my fate with me. I worked hard all that day.Wore blue jeans pants & shirt & straw hat & poor shoes. Today that same young lady is mine, I wear blue pants, gray shirt, felt hat & canvas shoes...

Canvas shoes were around back then? BTW, the letter is from George E. Dolton to his wife, as published in The Path of Patriotism: Civil War Letters of George Edwin Dolton, ISBN: 1-4196-0707-3 (page 46).

[Minieball577]

Re: canvas shoes?

Canvas shoes we not uncommon. You hear people call them "Camp Shoes" in common reference today. Here is an image showing what is likely a pair of canvas shoes on some Confederate dead at Gettysburg.

[BrianHicks]

Re: canvas shoes?

Canvas Shoes?

You don't have to look far (there have been several of discussions on them right here on these A/C forums) to find great info on this topic.

http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/search.php?searchid=203117

There is one discussion in particular, which even has some great images of original Canvas Shoes.

http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6201&highlight=canvas+shoes

[Gary of CA]

Re: canvas shoes?

thanks guys!