Expert Outflanks Swindler Of History

An Anonymous Patron tells us about an archivist who noticed a letter signed by Civil War general Lewis A. Armistead on eBay:

He knew that letter particularly well. Ten years earlier, he examined it himself — at the National Archives in Washington. And he knew there was only one way it could be offered on eBay: It had been stolen.

Read the full story at the Washington Post.