Tattoo It On Your Forehead

Here’s a thoughtful post by Dmitri Rotov on how we have come to understand – or rather, “know” - what happened to Confederate general Gustavus W. Smith after he took command of the army outside of Richmond in June 1862.  The opening sentence says it all:

Common knowledge is the curse of Civil War history.

Post title courtesy of Jeffrey [The Big] Lebowski.