Date of Award

Summer 1986

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Committee Director

Harold S. Wilson

Committee Member

D. Alan Harris

Committee Member

Peter C. Stewart

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.H47P35

Abstract

This is a study of the Confederacy's attempt to supply all types of leather products necessary to equip and maintain adequately its armies during the Civil War. This study includes all phases of leather supply efforts made at home and abroad by civilians, the Army, state and political leaders, and slaves. This research gives insight on the importance of a very basic item of supply that is often overlooked by historians as a significant factor in the Civil War. Leather deficiencies were serious in the Confederacy throughout the war. Despite the revolutionary efforts on the part. of the government and civilians to reduce those deficiencies, inadequate supplies of leather goods, especially shoes, contributed to the failure of the Confederacy.

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DOI

10.25777/j0kx-w539

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