The following excerpt is from a fascinating story by Tony Gonzalez, published in the November 19, 2014 edition of The Tennessean.
The little leather boot sat on a shelf for 90 years. A family heirloom, mostly just gathering dust.
But when it showed up in a room filled with historical archivists, well, the boot could still turn heads.
Myers Brown remembers the moment as the crowd gathered around it.
“This guy walks in and he’s got it in this little box,” said Brown, a researcher with the Tennessee State Library and Archives who specializes in the Civil War.
“It’s a Yankee shoe. I knew immediately that it was legitimate.”
