[3] When Franklin Pierce was elected, Fitch was appointed United States Marshall for the Northern District of Ohio.
[3] During the United States Civil War, Fitch was general of volunteers, in charge of Camp Taylor in Cleveland.
Regiments were sent out under other commanders, so Fitch volunteered as private in the 19th Ohio Infantry under General Beatty, who appointed him quartermaster.
[3] After the war, he returned to real estate interests in Cleveland, and, in 1877 he was elected lieutenant governor of Ohio on a Democratic Party ticket with Richard M. Bishop.
He held no later offices, except trustee of the Northern Ohio Insane Asylum and United States jury commissioner.