
Solomon Veasey (1828-October 1864) was an American Baptist minister who lived in North Carolina during the 1860s. He was a morally corrupt preacher who was not above stealing and philandering, and he impregnated his Black lover. In October 1864, he drugged her and planned to throw her to her death in a gorge before she could give birth to his illegitimate child, but he was prevented from doing so by the Confederate deserter William P. Inman, who returned him to the town, tied him to his church's fence, and gagged him. On discovering their minister's infidelity, the congregation shaved Veasey and shunned him from the community. Veasey decided to tag along with Inman as he headed west to Cold Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and they were hosted by the farmer Junior Taylor along the way. There, Veasey engaged in a threesome with Taylor's female associates, but he and Inman were arrested by the Confederate Home Guard after Taylor betrayed Inman in exchange for his bounty. Veasey and Inman were forced to march into captivity, but, along the way, a Union Army cavalry patrol ambushed the Home Guardsmen. Home Guard officer Hank Templeton shot Veasey dead before the Union soldiers killed him as well.