 Signal Knob, a 2,111 foot barren promontory at the extreme northern ridgeline of Fort Valley offering sweeping panoramic views of the Shenandoah Valley northeast and west, was utilized during a Civil War as an important Confederate military observation and signal post.In skirmishing over control of Signal Knob, several Confederate soldiers were killed.One still lies buried there and his grave that inspired the poem, "The Georgia Volunteer."