James Wilson Fisher was a veteran of the Civil War. On April 20, 1861, he enlisted as a private for three months service in the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Guthrie Grays", Company A, at Camp Harrison, Ohio, by Captain Gordon Granger, U. S. Army (view Muster Roll). He was promoted to Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Navy, on May 24, 1861.

In July of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln called for 300,000 more troops for three years. Those in his regiment who chose not to reenlist for three years were mustered out on August 21, 1861 at Cincinnati, Ohio, by T. W. Walker, 1st Lieutenant 3rd Infantry, U. S. A. James (probably) mustered out with his company at this time. The official records of this mustering out have been lost.

Still, James paid a very high price due to that fact that his two only brothers, John H. Fisher and Joseph Fisher, were both killed in the War.

James and his family moved from Uhrichville, Ohio to Adams Mills, Ohio in 1876. He worked as the station agent at Adams Mills, on the Panhandle Railroad, which he helped to build. A wonderful photograph exists of James Wilson Fisher and his Section Gang, also known as Gandy Dancers, taken by his son George Elmer Fisher, ca. 1890.

Obituary :

James Fisher died last Friday afternoon after a several weeks illness of Typhoid fever. Funeral services were conduced Sunday at the home by Rev. York and interment was made in a cemetery nearby.