Capt. Andrew Jackson Gingles declined to stand for reelection when the regiment was reorganized at Corinth, Mississippi, in May 1862, and returned to his home in Prairie County. He doesn't appear to have served in any other regiment.

An account of the first year of service of the Austin Rifles, Co. I, 5th Arkansas Infantry, written by a member of the company, mentioned Captain Gingles --

In the month of May, 1861, when war clouds hung heavy over our Southland, a call for volunteers was made on the little village of Austin and vicinity, and by June 10, we had responded with 87 men and boys, enrolled by Capt. James Blakney of Austin. For some cause, Captain Blakney could not go to the front with us, so the good old people advised us to take A. J. Gingles as our captain. We accepted him and chose Howard M. Gist as first lieutenant, B. F. Murrell, second lieutenant, and Hugh Ross, as third.