The Harvey Battle

The Harvey fight is remembered because the man on the other side told the story. James Copeland dictated his life to Sheriff J. R. S. Pitts before he was hanged near Augusta on 30 October 1857, and rumor said clan members swore to steal every copy of the 1858 book that followed. No first edition has ever turned up. The Copeland clan stole livestock and enslaved people, luring captives with promises of freedom and selling them at distant auctions. Harvey was carried after the fight to John Dale's house, died there and lay in Dale Cemetery until 1974.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Black Creek Wild and Scenic River — 15 mi
  A 21-mile black-water creek through De Soto National Forest, a national wild and scenic river since 1986, with white sandbars, bluffs and primitive camping.
• Mississippi Armed Forces Museum — 24 mi
  The state military museum inside Camp Shelby, where 750,000 soldiers trained for the Second World War, among them the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
• Salmon Site (Tatum Salt Dome) — 30 mi
  The only place east of the Mississippi River where the United States detonated nuclear devices, two underground tests in 1964 and 1966 in Lamar County.
• Crosby Arboretum — 36 mi
  A Mississippi State University arboretum in Picayune showing the plants of the Pearl River basin, with Fay Jones's Pinecote Pavilion among the pitcher plant savanna and pines.

More markers nearby

• Stone County — 3.0 mi
• Gulf & Ship Island Railroad — 4.5 mi
• Professor W.P. Locker — 4.9 mi
• The Stapp Sisters — 6.0 mi