John T. Whittington

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farm worker living with his parents and siblings on the small family place in Smith County, MS. He enlisted on 4 May 1861 in Raleigh, MS, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left ankle in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was captured, probably in a hospital in Winchester, VA on 5 December 1862 and sent to Camp Chase, OH on 3 March 1863. He was a prisoner there until sent to City Point, VA for exchange on 28 March 1863. He was afterward in Richmond, VA hospitals due to his Sharpsburg wound to at least July 1864, then on detached service there. He was retired to the Invalid Corps at Enterprise, MS on 8 December 1864 with no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Paulding in Jasper County, MS. In 1900 he was farming in Jones County, MS.

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

He married Mary Anne Moore (1842-1907) in about 1865 and they had 8 children.

His older brother Julius E Whittington (b. 1836), also in Company H, was killed at 2nd Manassas on 30 August 1862.

06/26/1839 in AL

10/21/1901; Jasper County, MS; burial in Old Union Cemetery, Jasper County, MS