Generator wiring?

I understand alternator field wire connections, very clear, bus voltage goes into the vr and out comes a field corrected signal to the F terminal on the alternator, easy. Now I am trying to understand the old generator field signal, diagram attatched. Generator has two terminals, A and F. F is wired to master switch, easy so far, self generated field signal turned on and off with master, we select master ON, boom field on its way to VR, VR does its thing and now this is where I am confused, does the VR send its adjusted field signal backwards through the master and back to the F terminal on generator? The VR has F, A, and B connections, A connects to charging terminal of gen. B goes to the aircraft bus, and F we know is the input from the master. I dont see how the field can be ran backwards back to the F terminal, is that what it is doing?

Thanks

The voltage regulator on a generator system only controls the output on terminal B. It does this by sensing voltage and current and interrupting the field current at terminal F. The initial output of the generator is through self excitation from the magnetism of the field 'shoes'. Only when the voltage or current settings are exceeded does the regulator begin to interrupt the field current.

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Here's the wiring diagram out of my 1957 C180 owner's manual.
One for the engine compartment stuff, one for everywhere else.
The generator armature terminal is wired direct to the regulator A terminal (wire 54),
while the generator field terminal is wired to the master switch (wire 55),
then from the master back to the regulator F terminal (wire 53).
The regulator B terminal is wired (wire 51) through a 35A circuit breaker to the buss,
and then back to the hot side of the starter solenoid (wire 63).
I kinda think electricity flows both ways through this last circuit?
But it doesn't really matter if I understand it, the electricity knows what to do if it's all wired correctly.