Person:John Wollam (5)

Private, Company C, 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Medal of Honor

One of the 19 of 22 men (including 2 civilians), who, by direction of Gen. Mitchell (or Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Ga., and attempted to destroy the bridges and track between Chattanooga and Atlanta. ²

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} John Wollam, in Find A Grave.

   His government-issued military marker is misspelled as "Woolam."

2. ↑ United States. Army. Center of Military History. Medal of Honor Recipients.

   http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civwarmz.html