I have learned a lesson in humility and outbursts like that will NEVER happen again from me. The Tao are our Friends and I will always remember that. I will give them 100% loyalty. I was so anxious to hear from them, and being a linear being, time moves more slowly for me. It feels like an eternity since I first met them on this Blog.

Carr was assuring me on one hand and the Tao were ignoring me on the other. I acted inappropriately and thought they would never want to hear from me again. I was torn apart. They do not feel the ravages of linear time. I do.

I am walking around without my feet touching the floor since we began our dialog a few days ago. Carr says “I told you so” and I am a fool for doubting.

I know you are enjoying the education you have received from Adam and I look forward to my experience beginning. I suppose I need to learn a lesson about patience — It is a virtue, you know.

I am changing topics to Humankind. I agree with Adam. My species has acted so cruel and selfish over the millennia and broken down many of the Earth’s Ecosystems. Global warming is just one problem to worry about. Humans have actually turned the Earth into a Garbage Dump and many species are disappearing forever. The end result is that the future for life on this Planet looks bleak. I blame Humankind for transgressions against their own Planet. We flush our excrement into our oceans and destroy the underwater Ecosystem as well. When the Planet looses the capability to support human life, we certainly deserve it and I hope to not be around to witness this sad event.

HOWIE

I feel that you with you association with Carr can truly understand my dilemma. You were very correct when you asked” if I doubted my own sanity. I used to doubt it a lot. Now only occasionally.

I see Adam do things with the casualness of me getting a glass of water. It seems to be no more difficult or impressive to him. I am in awe. To be Still around 252 years after I was born is amazing. I don’t recognize the death history says occurred 12, 1804. I don’t remember the event. I do remember very clearly every thing else I experience during those times.

I fully deny current claims that i was born in the year of our Lord 1755. Who are these experts claiming to know more about me than I do? Sounds like there more Edwards out there than we suspect.

AH

Commenting on a computer blog must be a strange experience to you, yet you have adapted to it all like a duck to water. Not to mention learning the vernacular of this day and age.

It would take a very special Human to adapt to all these changes in such a short time even with the accompaniment of Adam, this must all be a difficult yet fantastic undertaking for you.

Have you ever questioned you own sanity? I have questioned mine many times because of the company I have kept and the situations I have gone through, including reanimation.

You are witnessing a war which took place 60 years after your demise and yet you are familiar with future wars and happenings — even people such as Adolph Hitler and WWII. How have you taken it all in? How have you learned so much?

From your writing I sense your acclimation to all these new situations and knowledge. You have become a contemporary Human in every sense of the word.

I too wish to acquire many of these qualities and hope to do as well as you have.

HOWIE

We have been friends for a long time, and anything you decide to do is probably a good idea.
I hope that things are working out for you (I know they are) and please accept my apologies for any rudeness. You know you have been a great blog sister to me. Just stay you and all will be fine.
10-4 and over and out.

Luv,
Al

We are awaiting an army commanded by Ulysses S. Grant. It is several times our size. On April 2nd, the Union Army broke through our lines. We have been on the retreat ever since. We are presently retreating west towards Amelia, Virginia. There are supposed to be rations there for us. We are tired and starving.

We have ran into a Union Army that was waiting for us. The fighting is fierce. I am hoping Adam is near by. I don’t think that he will let me die. But the pains of wounds and other injuries are very real.

We discovered no provisions at Amelia. The ambush at Sayler’s Creek today cost us about a third of our men. We retreat through the bodies of the dead, dying and wounded and blood. The cries of pain from the wounded and dying are deafening. Men are deserting right and left.

General Lee says he has received a letter from General Grant asking him to surrender to save some of his men. I got Adam to bring me the letter it said to spare
“further effusion of blood.”

General Lee said that he had no plans for surrender. He said that we would make a run to the Appomattox Court House. He said that we would find provisions and more troops there.

Adam transferred us to General Grant’s camp. He was ordering General Sheridan to race ahead of Lee and destroy his provisions. General Grant had spies throughout the South. His spies had informed him of all of Lee’s provisional locations.

Grant sent troops on fast fresh horses to rush ahead of Lee and destroy his provisions. His intentions were not to take on Lee’s army directly but to wear it down first. He used superior wit to defeat Lee.

He kept Lee thinking the next possible savior was the next provisional location. He made sporadic attacks on his troops. He could ambush Lee at will because He knew their route and intentions.

Grant was 15 years younger than Lee but he was a superb tactician. He out maneuvered the experienced Lee at every turn.

He had Lee convinced that his was the bigger army. Then he whittled Lee’s forces down with precision planned ambushes. All the while pushing Lee toward the next possible salvation.

General Sheridan had raced ahead of Lee and captured several thousands of gutless rebels anxious to surrender. They also surrendered all the food and supplies Lee was counting on to General Sheridan.

Lee was beside himself. He ordered us to burn more than 600 supply wagons. I asked Adam to switch us to General Sheridan’s 6th Corps. I wanted to see this situation from the Union side.

When we arrived about 9:00 AM on Saturday. The Union army was leaving Farmville. After traveling a few miles we came upon the burned trains I had helped Lee’s army set afire yesterday. The roads were full of the things we had thrown away. I had personally scattered the desks, papers, and other equipment that were part of Lee’s headquarters equipment. I watched with fascination as I came upon my actions only a day earlier when I was a rebel doing General Lee’s bidding.

I could hear cheering all around. It soon became clear that the men were excited that General Lee had sent in terms for his surrender. I was anxious to read what those terms were so i asked Adam to take me to Grant’s tent.

He said not to bother because General Grant had sent a note back to Lee that he was only a General following the orders of President Lincoln and as such he had no authority to make peace. He told Lee that he would accept nothing but an unconditional surrender.

I noticed that the 2nd and 5th Corps had taken many more rebel prisoners. I sensed the end was near so I asked Adam to return me to the rebel camp.

Adam brought me back to Lee’s troops. It is now April 9th, Palm Sunday. Lee is in his tent dressing for his surrender to General Grant. Or rather as he said to “discuss surrender terms.” He sent a note to General Grant under a flag of truce asking for a meeting with Grant to discuss surrender terms.

General Grant repeated that he would accept nothing less than an Unconditional surrender. Lee sent word that he would not surrender then.

General Grant being the superb tactician that he was had sent General Thomas to take Lynchburg with the 4th Corps. He also sent a troop of calvary to attack the rear of the rebels in Lynchburg to support the 4th Corps. The rebels were so disheartened and beaten that more that three times the number of the 4th Corps, 45,000 confederate soldiers surrendered to General Thomas.

With the taking of Lynchburg, General Grant had effectively surrounded General Lee. Grant’s strategic attacks and ambushes had killed or caused to desert so many of Lee’s forces that he could not defend any side that General Grant chose to attack from. Plus General Grant had in reserve the 2nd Corps ready to charge Lee’s rear.

General Grant sent word to Lee that he would give him until 5:PM to surrender. It had taken General only one week to destroy Lee’s whole army. It is a tribute to the South’s skills that history does not give credit to the skill of General Grant who took a much smaller force and conquered the South’s best in a week.

When the exploits of great General’s are discussed, the south’s still powerful influence prevents General Grant from taking his proper place ahead of the line. His victory is excused away with lies about the South’s forces being much smaller and weaker than his.

I was there and now so were you. All LIes!. The reason the South lost is because of superior military tactics employed by General ulysses S. Grant. He would not take losing as an option. He instilled in his men the idea that they had a cause and that cause was worth dying for.

For all the South’s claim to gallantry and valor, when it came down to putting one’s life on the line, they folded their tents and went home. I was there and the fear and cowardice was palpable. These were men used to employing power in situations in which others were powerless to resist them. But when faced with a determined enemy capable of inflicting equal harm, they were basically gutless wonders looking for a reason to exit the field of battle.

All the South has left is the lie of gallantry, and the paint of valor they paint themselves with. General Lee put on his finest uniform the one he had ordered us to protect and transport to one of the lighter wagons. So Lee dressed in an immaculate gray uniform met with Grant dressed in a rumpled, mud splattered uniform to surrender.

The Union camp exploded with shooting in celebration. Artillery, rifles, guns, anything we could explod was exploded. The sky lit up with exploding fire. General Grant ordered us not to celebrate any more. He came out and said stop “the war is over, the rebels are our country men again.”

Adam suggested that we head out further South and West because the war would continue there for a few more months. But I am through. Besides on April 3rd while I was in Petersburg, I saw President Lincoln. He was surrounded by crowds of freed black slaves thanking him for their freedom. White women and children were standing behind them swearing and throwing dirt and rocks at the ex slaves.

I am heading to the Ford theater to see the assignation of Mr. Lincoln. Adam said that he would allow me to attend the plot to set Mr. Lincoln’s assignation in motion. The plot was initiated one year after he was elected during his first term. The opportunity didn’t present it self until he entered his second term.

If anyone is interested i will spill the beans. I love the new colloquiums, I have picked up.

AH