Wheelock Veazey

MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION

Rapidly assembled his regiment and charged the enemy's flank; charged front under heavy fire, and charged and destroyed a Confederate brigade, all this with new troops in their first battle.

Conflicts: Civil War
Organization: U.S. Army

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