Rude's Hill

Rude's Hill is a hill in Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA. It was named after the Danish Lutheran minister Anders Rudolph Rude,[1] who arriving in the USA in 1836 had married the widow to the Steenbergen plantation.

memorial markers on Rude's Hill

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 divisions of Philip Sheridan's Union cavalry pursued the confederate General Jubal A. Early.[2] Having routed Early, Sheridan employed schorched earth tactics and destroyed the economic infrastructure of the Shenandoah Valley. The manor was looted by Union troops, one of them was another Dane, Ole R. Olsen. Ultimately, Union troops encamped on the property and erected several buildings, including a hospital, but all of which were demolished by 1870.

Today the crest of the hill contains several memorial markers of civil War events at Rude's Hill.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

References

  1. ↑ Pastor Claus Laurits Clausen: Banebryder for den Norske og Danske Kirke i Amerika. Første skandinavisk Feltpræst Kirkehistorisk Bidrag. 1921. Rasmus Andersen
  2. ↑ A guidebook to Virginia's historical markers. John S. Salmon, Margaret T. Peters, Virginia. Dept. of Historic Resources. University of Virginia Press. 1994
  3. ↑ "Kalundborg og Omegns Museum - West-Zealanders in the American Civil War". Kalmus.dk. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
  4. ↑ The Valley Campaign of 1862 as Revealed in Letters of Sandie Pendleton. W. G. Bean and Sandie Pendleton. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 78, No. 3 (Jul., 1970), pp. 326-364
  5. ↑ http://www.shenandoahcountyhistoricalsociety.org/PDF/LutheranChurchAA.pdf
  6. ↑ "ANDERS R. RUDE, Circa 1812, Copenhagen". Genforum.genealogy.com. 2001-05-21. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
  7. ↑ "RootsWeb: RUDE-L RUDE, ANDERS RUDOLPH, b 1812 in Denmark, d 1883 in Texas". Archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
  8. ↑ "Rude'S Hill, Virginia". Fortunecity.com. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
  9. ↑ "Rude’s Hill Marker". Hmdb.org. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
  10. ↑ "Civil War historical marker at Rudes Hill, south of Mount Jackson,Virginia". Shenandoah.stonesentinels.com. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
  11. ↑ "Historical marker for Rude's Hill Action in between Mount Jackson and New Market, Virginia". Shenandoah.stonesentinels.com. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
  12. ↑ "Wayside marker about Rude's Hill - Knoll of Refuge and Attack, near Mount Jackson, Virginia". Shenandoah.stonesentinels.com. Retrieved 2012-02-04.

Coordinates: 38°42′08″N 78°38′41″W / 38.70222°N 78.64472°W / 38.70222; -78.64472

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