. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . teredthe first veteran volunteer regiment ever sworn into theservice of the United States, the Twenty-ninth Pennsyl-vania. Major Veale was discharged from the service by specialorder of the War Department, June 8, 1865, and has acommission dated January 16, 1865, as brevet colonel forgallant and meritorious services at the battles of CedarMountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wau-hatchie, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold,Resaca, New Hope Church, Pine Knob, siege of Savan-nah, and General Shermans
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . teredthe first veteran volunteer regiment ever sworn into theservice of the United States, the Twenty-ninth Pennsyl-vania. Major Veale was discharged from the service by specialorder of the War Department, June 8, 1865, and has acommission dated January 16, 1865, as brevet colonel forgallant and meritorious services at the battles of CedarMountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wau-hatchie, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold,Resaca, New Hope Church, Pine Knob, siege of Savan-nah, and General Shermans campaign throughout theCarolinas. In an extract written by General John W. Geary hespeaks of him in thefollowing terms : Major Veale wasbravest of the brave. General John H. Kane says, Heshowed much gallantry in action. And the followingletter, written by that splendid soldier, fighting JoeHooker: It gives me great pleasure to state, for the in-formation of all concerned, that I knew Major Veale wellduring the late war, and that I regard his sen ices on the2S <\ .,.. stall of General Geary as being the most able and dis-tinguished of all his officers, among whom were manyof brilliant reputations and prominent standing. I amconscious of no political excitement that will justify theimpeachment of his military record or private character. Major Veale was slightly wounded in the arm amigroin at the battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862,and was taken prisoner ami held as a hostage in LibbyPrison, under retaliatory orders of Jefferson Davis, untilthe last of September, 1862, when he was exchanged, andimmediately returned to his command. lie was wounded in the action at Wauhatchie by aball passing through his right shoulder. At KenesawMountain he was shot through the right lung, the ballpassing entirely through his body, and his horse wasshot from under him and mortally wounded at the sametime. After the war, Major Veale was commissioned UnitedStates attorney for the Territory o
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