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If we up can’t get it done and run then you this year, front won’t see me the probably But if I’m competi- next year. tive this year and we can go and up front out and run maybe win a race or two or make that top-10 and be a factor in that top-10 outfit at then the end of the year, have gonna probably you’re to deal with me a couple years.” more 31, N DAYTONA, FLDAYTONA, | When goal is “My number-one ORDON GOING FOR FIVE OL ORNER V G asked recently what his goals asked recently for the 2005 racing sea- were replied: Gordon son, Jeff winning a fifth champi- onship. That is what we’ve towards been working hard C DISPLAY OF DOORS IN THE AREA ACING R Ricky Rudd to compliment your home Repair Service Guaranteed see a Before & After of what your new door will look like! Overhead Doors LARGEST Custom Sizes and designs Same Day or Next Day Our Computer will allow you to Residential & Commercial Shop at Home Service Expert Installation “Really, I try purposely to “Really, I I feel great. “Physically, ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ was with the Yates organiza- Yates was with the and tion. It started back then that you start realizing not gonna be doing you’re been a so there’s this forever, lot of thought put in it. keep my life as simple as I possibly can — not a lot of side diversions or a whole lot of other racing going on, but just the Cup racing. I do that on purpose to help really keep focused so the burnout factor doesn’t set in too much there. feel as good as I ever have. I couldn’t be happier with the starting to way the cars are and coming around respond dri- — the way the cars are me, that’s ving good. To all about is what it’s really getting in a race car that dri- good. If it drives ves really good, good and runs really then you’ve got a chance to go out and win a race or run That’s sort of what up front. is keeps me hanging around HE T 39 EWS ? N UDD tive owners Unauthorized reproduction Unauthorized owners tive republication for contents its or page this of whole in R TLANTIC A ODGES ICKY H R INAL YEAR F FOR ERALD DAYTONA, FLDAYTONA, | With several are But there Rudd says if he has a driver of The 48-year-old for at least He drove year This will be his third “When I first started our “The bad memories are “Always a lot of thought G Y PECIAL TO THE B S less than three weeks to go less than three year’s, this before Daytona 20, February 500 on Sunday, anxious to most drivers are Rusty get back to racing. Mark Martin and Wallace will be have indicated this their last year of full-time racing. near- other drivers who are ing the finish line. One of those is veteran Ricky Rudd. good finish this season, he will be back, but if it is a bad one, finishing out of the top- 10, then he might hang up his driving suit. Gen- the No. 21 Motorcraft be will uine Parts Taurus entering his 30th year as a driver in NASCAR’s major series. teams, eight different including one ran by his start- Al Rudd, before father, ing his own team in 1994. He closed up his shop in 1999, Yates to drive for Robert until 2002. But Brothers. with the Wood and he has gone full circle, now is back in the building he designed in 1993. race team in late ‘93 to get for the ‘94 season, we ready built this building from looking at the blueprints, getting together with archi- tects and all that, so I was involved in this building the very beginning,” from this in were said Rudd. “We ‘94 to when building from we shut the team down and ‘99 was the last year we ran. good memories are There and bad memories. and see when I look out here all these chairs. That me that this is reminds they had the about where auction tables set up here. The auctioneer was up here and all the other people in the sitting out there were seats and that was a tough a matter of fact, I As day. stuck my head in the door and walked right back out. I had to leave. was put into when I would I guess it goes back a retire. couple of years ago when I OTES In a letter written by In a letter written Hall, in the same docu- Colonel Hall on February 21, Colonel Hall on February on 1892, (Hall was a Captain dur- General Whipple’s staff the ing the battle and was one who lead the survivors Hall states, to the rear) really “Colonel Bowman to the 12th gave no direction after the first for- that day, mation in the early morning, and it was not under his eye during the at any time after, battle ... I wish I might help by my testimony to do that justice to the gallant 12th which my New Hampshire lamented friend, General Whipple, did not live to do...” ment, gave his account of what happened. He explained that the regiment was, “posted near the edge of the woods below the Chancellor House. It got separated, by some chance, the essentially from pretty of the division. I rather rest think its separation was about by its fighting brought doggedly better and more maintaining its position ... General Whipple and his attending rather were staff of the divi- to the rest more sion, because, as I remember perfectly well, he had full confidence in the 12th and it Colonel Potter commander, (Note: Both Potter and ‘regular’Whipple were the war), and army before believed it would hold its as long as possible ... ground After our line was broken and the almost everywhere army was practically driven its position, and a from was immi- or rout retreat was still nent, this regiment maintaining itself and had ... not given up its ground Then, when about the whole toward line had retreated the Chancellor House, the situation of the 12th began and to be a matter of inquiry, taken by General steps were Whipple to save whatever might be left of it ... Colonel Bowman, commanding the brigade, has lost communi- cation with it — but I finding the rem- remember nant left of it after it had got back as far as the Chancellor the House, and taking it off field....” N AR

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A B S staff officers.” staff tion from either general or tion from complain for lack of atten- would have no reason to would have no reason of the main line of battle ... it to the rear as it was in front to the rear 12th been at that time as far safe to presume, that had the safe to presume, cers ad aides-de-camp? It is where were all his staff offi- all his staff were where possibly do so himself, 12th)? Or if he could not ing after the other (the Colonel Bowman from look- Colonel Bowman from ments, what hindered two Pennsylvania regi- Crowther in command of his Crowther ask, “If Bowman left Colonel regimental history would regimental lorsville) — writing the ly wounded at Chancel- Captain; he too was serious- would rise to the rank of with the regiment and who with the regiment that report. Major — (then a Sargent died before he could write died before Hampshire a just report. He a just report. Hampshire enough to give the 12th New hope that he would live long carried off he expressed a he expressed carried off Union lines. While being Hampshire returned to returned Hampshire shortly after the 12th New wounded by a sharpshooter ment. Whipple was mortally brave actions of the regi- Whipple knew about the his reports. Only General his reports. mention of their actions in with the 12th and made no Colonel Bowman was not The brigade commander, son, never did file a report. Colonel Potter, for some rea- Colonel Potter, never written. Anever written. wounded at Chancellorsville was cellorsville.” role 12th New Hampshire’s lines at the Battle of Chan- mile behind Confederate fight for their lives a half Hampshire Mountaineers Hampshire the battle, the 12th New the battle, the 12th ten, both during and after ten, both during and table of New Hampshire.) ber of the Civil War Round- ber of the Civil War written by Paul Oman, a mem- written by Paul Oman, fourth of a multi-part article fourth of a multi-part