@lucylin - I had a little trouble understanding the background to the story as I am not american, and have not read much history.

I Googled to get the context.

For those like me - here is a little context:

There is a strong rumour that the battle of Gettysburg was fought over boots. The army believed that there were many boots to be had in the town. The battle was in 1863..

Here is a quote from the Virginia Encyclopedia:

• Ten weeks after the battle, Confederate general Henry Heth, a Virginian whose troops were the first to engage on July 1, filed a now-famous report in which he explained why he had sent a portion of his division into the small Pennsylvania town. "On the morning of June 30," Heth wrote, "I ordered Brigadier General [Johnston] Pettigrew to take his brigade to Gettysburg, search the town for army supplies (shoes especially), and return the same day." That parenthetical phrase "shoes especially" has taken on a life of its own over the years. A 1997 newsletter of the American Podiatric Medical Association is typical—it claimed, perhaps due to its interest in foot health, that footwear was the battle's causa belli, adding, "There was a warehouse full of boots and shoes in the town."

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