Five feet 8 inches tall, slender, fair complexion, dark hair, blue eyes; 22 years of age on day of the raid. Slight beard and mustache. Farmer.

Born 1840, Hamilton, Ohio, to Balser and Harriet Swanton Wollam (d. July 18, 1875), married Aug. 13, 1833.

Died Sept. 25, 1890, Topeka, Kan.

Buried Fairmont Cemetery, Jackson, Ohio, Sept. 29-30, 1890.

Enrolled Co. C 33rd Ohio Inf. Regt. August 24, 1861. Mustered Aug. 27, 1861, Camp Morrow, Portsmouth, Ohio. Volunteered Andrews Raid. Discharged Oct. 10, 1864, Acworth, GA., expiration of term of service.

Saw action in Andrews Raid; at Battle of Chickamauga, Ga.; in the Atlanta, Ga., campaign.

Captured April 1862; escaped Swims Jail, Chattanooga, Tenn.; recaptured 1862; escaped Fulton County Jail, Atlanta, GA., Oct. 16, 1862. Reached Federal lines near Corinth, Miss., Nov. 18, 1862. Captured Sept. 19, 1863; escaped February 1864.

Awarded Medal of Honor July 20, 1864.

Pension $24 per month, effective July 16, 1888, No. 407,429.

NORTH

Andrews | Bensinger
Brown | Buell
Buffum | Campbell
Dorsey | Hawkins
Knight | Llewellyn
Mason | Mitchel
Parrott | Pittenger
Porter | Reddick
Robertson | Ross
Scott | Shadrach
Slavens | Smith
G.Wilson | J.Wilson
Wollam | Wood

SOUTH
Bond | Bracken
Cain | Cox
Fuller | Haney
Harbin | Henderson
Martin | Murphy
Smith | Stokley

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