i saw you at the madison library and most recently at fort begley, where you portrayed a sailor, and i would like you to speak about that a little bit, because it was just entirely unknown to me. please speak on that a bit. >>speak about that a little bit, because it was i would be happy to. thank you for remembering me. well, that is one aspect of the civil war in middle tennessee that does not get a lot of attention, and i do belong to a civil war naval units come but they are based in massachusetts so actually, my unit is there but i am here, so i represent what would be the western theater in the naval experience, and there were a lot of african american sailors connected with the navy and the gunboats and river warfare that went on on the rivers here and a lot of the major battles that were fought, some lost, some won they were fought for control of the rivers, so i knew this story just from reading, and i made my connection to this particular naval unit in massachusetts, and my commanding officer was tickled to death he had somebody in tennessee so i inadvertently joined. me an