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Johnny Vardeman: Markers relate some historic events, sites in Northeast Ga.
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Did you know that a Confederate Army unit that organized in Hall County helped keep Union Gen. U.S. Grant’s army at bay until Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived at Petersburg, Va., during the Civil War? This same unit, Co. D, 27th Georgia Infantry, Colquitt’s Brigade, “against great odds ... withstood four attacks by a heavy force of Federals in a great display of bravery.”