PVT in Co.I, 150th Indiana Infantry under command of Col, Marsh B. Taylor. Honorable discharged 25 Sept 1865.
OBIT:
James Shields Fisher, 86, veteran of the Civil war and one of Clinton county's most prominent retired farmers, passed away at his home, 753 South Jackson street, last night about 8:45 o'clock. He had been suffering from dropsy and a complication of ailments for the passed year.
Mr. Fisher was born in this county, September 5, 1844, and was the son of David and Christina (Shields) Fisher. He enlisted in Co. I, of the 150 Regiment of Indiana Infantry on February 16, 1865, and served until August 5 of the same year. One month before he received his discharge he was married with Nancy J. Heaton, the ceremony having been preformed July 17, 1865. (note: wedding was actually July 4) Practically all his life he had been a member of Morris Chapel M. E. church and had been active in all affairs of the G. A. R. until taken ill. He enjoyed a wide circle of friends throughout the county and was held in high esteem.
Surviving are the widow and four sons, David P., William L., Epsie C., Clarence C.; four daughters, Mrs. Losie Zerface, Mrs. Ada Spray, Mrs. Nancy Walters, Mrs. Ethel Clark, all of this city and county. Three preceded him in death, Grover C., Mrs. Antes Clark and James J. Fisher. Funeral services will be conducted from the residence Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with the minister of the Morris Chapel officiating. Internment will be in Bunnell cemetery.
(FRANKFORT MORNING TIMES, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1930, PAGE 10, COLUMN 2, FRANKFORT, INDIANA)

Private in Company I, 150th Indiana Infantry under command of Col. Marsh B. Taylor. He came home to Frankfort on furlough from Stevenson's Station, W.V. on June 30 1865. After the wedding on July 4th, he returned on Jul 30 to his company that was then in the South engaged in guard duty and in cleaning up the guerilla bands that strolled about the sparcely populated area after Lee's surrender. Honorable discharge 25 Sep. 1865. On recieving his discharge, he returned to his bride and they established a one room log cabin on the farm of Nancy's father David Heaton. In March 1866 the moved to the farm of James' father, David Fisher. In Nov 1868 the purchased two acres and constructed a modern hewn log house with two rooms. Crops failed that year so in Oct 1869 they sold their possessions and moved to Clark Co., Missouri, making the entire distance in a prairie schooner. They took up a 120 acres farm, but in Nov 1870 they became homesick, sold the farm and moved back to the Fisher farm in Clinton Co., IN. They purchased 2 acres of land and build a frame house. There most of the children were born. After earning enough, in 1878 they purchased a tract of fourty arces in Jackson Twp. that joined the original two acres they had. They went on in 1895 to buy another 22 acres of adjoining land and again in 1879 they purchased 11 acres more. They continued to add on until there were 120 acres in Clinton Co. In 1902 they retired an moved into town first on East St. then finally on South Jefferson Street.