Private, Co. D, 14th Indiana Infantry. Enlisted June 1, 1861 at Terre Haute, Indiana. Injured at the Battle of Winchester, Virginia from gunshot wound to the right leg, breaking the limb and knee joint and discharged from wounds on October 11, 1862. Later enlisted as a recruit in Co. C, 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery/21st Indiana Infantry on October 7, 1863 and was discharged January 10, 1866.

James H. QUILLIN, died at Indianapolis, March 20, 1902, being stricken with apoplexy, from which he never regained consciousness. His remains were interred at Gosport, March 22, under the auspices of the Lyons Lodge of I.O. O. F. of which he had been a member for thirty years. The funeral was preached by William BAKER, he being a warm friend of the deceased and a relative by marriage.

James H. QUILLIN was born September 23, 1843, and was fifty-eight years, five months and twenty-seven days old at the time of his death. He was the second child of William T. and Nancy A. QUILLEN, and was born and raised on the old farm in Taylor Township. At the beginning of the late rebellion he enlisted in the 14TH INDIANA REGIMENT, CO. C under Capt. E. H. C. CAVINS. At the time of enlistment he was seventeen years and six months old. He went into camp at Terre Haute at Camp Vigo. After a short time the regiment was sent to the front and the first battle he was engaged in was the battle of Green Brier on Cheat Mountain. They had many small battles and skirmished with Col. Nathan KIMBELL as their leader. He was wounded at the battle of Winchester on March 23, 1863, at about 1 o'clock in the afternoon and lay on the battlefield until dusk before he was removed from the field. He was shot just below the knee joint on the right leg, breaking the limb and injuring the knee joint. He was taken to the hospital at Craney Island, where he was kept until discharged and sent home in September of the same year. He was at home until the next fall, and then went to New Orleans and joined the 1st HEAVY ARTILLERY under Capt. William BOUGH and served until the close of the war. The last fight was the battle of Mobile Bay. He was discharged with the regiment and located in Greene County on what was then known as the Island, just east of Island City, and on a piece of land lying next to and joining the Daniel FIELDS place on the east, and cleared up a farm as it was all woodland then. At this period he married Joicy WAGONER, a daughter of Noah WAGONER, and to this union were born four children—Samuel N., Rhada, Nancy and Virgil—all of whom have grown to manhood and womanhood. He sold his farm on the Island and bought one near Lyons. There his wife died, leaving him and his four small children. He then took an agency for a monument firm and worked at that for a time. He afterwards married his surviving wife, she being the daughter of Samuel WAGONER and a niece of his first wife. To this union there are no living children. After a short time they sold the farm near Lyons and went into the drug business at Lyons, which business he continued for a few years and then sold out to Riland CRISS. He then turned his attention to the hotel business, which business he followed up to the time of this death.

This sketch was written by his only surviving brother, R. S. QUILLIN, of Dugger.

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CEMETERIES OF EASTERN GREENE COUNTY, 1994, G.C.H.S., Taylor Township, Quillen Cemetery, Page 200, Column 3: The following notation was made "State Archive records show the following as buried in the Quillen Cemetery. No markers were found. QUILLEN, James H., Co C 1st Regt Ind HA, Civil War. QUILLEN, Josephus Co C 1st Regt HA Pvt. Civil War."

—This notation appears to be in error as an Owen County, Indiana Cemeteries lookup by Shannon Moore [email protected] provided the following names in the Gosport Cemetery: QUILLIN, James H 1843—1902, Co C 14th Ind Inf; Rachel L 1857—1955; Sam 1869—1922; Adeline 1870—1932; Virgil 1874—1911.