Boot speed laces in Civil War?

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Can't find an answer anywhere else. I found a scrap of leather with three brass speed laces (like for boots) in a trench. The patina looks right, and the tiny bit of leather holding them together looks right for 150 years in the ground. But did they have speed laces back then??
 
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