John Thomas Ainsworth

In 1860 he was 22 year old farmer at Turnersville in Jasper County, MS. He enlisted on 19 April 1861 in Raleigh, MS, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.

He was slightly wounded in the head in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 28 September and returned to duty on 15 October 1862. He was wounded again, on 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. He was listed as absent without leave after 8 November 1863 and to August 1864, his last military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Smith County, MS. In 1900 he was a laborer in the turpentine business in Marion County, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Dykes (1841-1859); she probably died during or soon after the birth of their son William (or Benjamin) Franklin Ainsworth (1859-1942). He married again, Morning Amanda Gunter (1840-1910) and they had 9 children together between 1863 and 1882.

His brother Livingston Ainsworth (b. 1842) was also in Company H, but died of disease in Richmond, VA in June 1862.

01/1838; Washington County, AL

1909; in MS; burial in Salem Cemetery, Wayne County, MS