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Rudes Hill
Hill
in
Blue Ridge
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Appalachian Mountains
near
Mount Jackson
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VA
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Rude's Hill is a hill in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. It was named after the Danish Lutheran minister Anders Rudolph Rude, who arriving in the USA in 1836 had married the widow to the Steenbergen plantation. The hill was an important site in the American Civil War. In April 1862, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson took up his quarter's there in 1862 during the Shenandoah Valley campaign. During fighting, pastor Rude's wife and daughter were unintended victims, and the property suffered heavy damage, so Rev. Rude left in the autumn. In Texas he became a minister and Professor, but this hill continued to reflect his family name. Later in November 1864 the hill overlooking the North Branch of the Shenandoah River and on an important road again became a battlefield, as…
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Edinburg Formation, Lincolnshire and New Market Limestones (VAOeln;0)
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