James Stuart Hanckel, Jr.

Oldest son of a wealthy Protestant Episcopal clergyman, and going by Stuart, like his father, he was appointed to the SCMA at the Arsenal in 1858. In August 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his parents and 7 siblings at their summer residence at Davidson River/Dunn's Rock in Henderson (later Transylvania) County, NC; their main home was in Charleston, SC. He enlisted at Charleston on 18 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and probably captured there.

He died of wounds "at the Military Hospital near the battlefield" on 25 September 1862. His father filed for his final pay of $128.16 in June 1863.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the Official Register of the ... South Carolina Military Academies (November 1857), and the US Census of 1860.

The Hanckel family's summer home near Brevard, NC (1856-1868), Chestnut Hill, is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

c. 1841; Charleston, SC

09/25/1862; Sharpsburg, MD