" . . . when the bankers pushed back against his demand for gold. If the Associated Banks refused his terms, he declared, “I will go back to Washington, and issue notes for circulation; for it is certain that the war must go on until the rebellion is put down, if we have to put out paper until it takes a thousand dollars to buy a breakfast.” https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/05/25/blues-grays-greenbacks-ways-and-... Reposts not firewalled capitals later cached and carried