“Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.” - Mark Twain

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

September 29

Jefferson Davis allowed himself to be far too detail-oriented. At one point during the war he was embroiled in a controversy over whether or not soldiers in the field should receive hometown newspapers with the postage paid by the Confederate government. [Davis argued – successfully, as it turned out – against such an unwarranted depletion of the Confederate treasury.]