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Rh he had sufficiently recovered to leave the hospital, was sent to the prison camp at Point Lookout, where he was confined until May, 1865. The deprivations and discomforts of this long and wearisome imprisonment made a vivid impression upon him and he will never forget what it meant to be a prisoner of war at Point Lookout. After his release, May 27, 1865, he returned to Alexandria and soon afterward went to sea on a merchant vessel bound for Texas. On returning home in the following autumn, he became engaged as an iron moulder, an occupation in which he continued until compelled to desist by failing health. During the past seventeen years he has been quite successfully engaged in the ice business, for three years as manufacturer, and supplying both the wholesale and retail trade. He is a member of R. E. Lee camp No. 2, of Alexandria, and of John S. Mosby camp, Confederate Veterans. On December S. 1866, he was married to Sarah Virginia Kirk, of Alexandria, and they have three children living.

James Stuart Hanckel was a brave son of South Carolina and served as corporal in the First South Carolina volunteer regiment until he lost his life at Sharpsburg. Allan R. Hanckel, judge of the corporation court at Norfolk, and brother of the above, was born at Camden, S. C., December 14, 1861, a younger member of a family which contributed in due measure to the maintenance of the Confederate government, two having served in the field—one, James S., mentioned above, the other Louis T., surviving and now a prominent lawyer and ex-mayor of Charlottesville, Va. Judge Hanckel is the son of Rev. James Stuart Hanckel, D. D., for several years rector of St. Michael's church at Charleston, S. C., and of the Episcopal church at Charlottesville, Va., from 1869 until his death, August 23, 1892. He wedded Fannie Trapmann, who was educated in Scotland during the consulate of her father at Liverpool. The grandfather of Judge Hanckel was Rev. Christian Hanckel, a native of South Carolina and descended, according to the traditions of the family, from a member of the bodyguard of Frederick the Great of Prussia, served many years as rector of the leading church at Charleston, S. C. Judge Hanckel received his academic education at Charlottesville and was graduated in law by the university of Virginia in 1883. He came to Norfolk to embark in the practice in August, 1884, and speedily took a high rank among the younger members of the bar at that city. In 1886 he was appointed United States commissioner by Judge Hughes, and held that position until 1895, when he received from Governor O'Ferrall the appointment of judge of the corporation court of Norfolk. During the session of 1895-96 he was elected to the same position by the legislature for a term ending January 1, 1901. This elevation to the bench at the age of thirty-five years is a high compliment to his legal ability, but is considered by his friends as a fully deserved honor. On December 11, 1890, he was married to Alice, daughter of Judge W. J. Robertson, formerly a judge of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia, one of the most distinguished lawyers of the State, who was counsel for the Lee heirs in the famous Arlington estate case and argued as such before the United States supreme court, and is now a prominent corporation attorney representing the Chesapeake & Ohio and Shenandoah & Norfolk railroads.

Louis T. Hanckel, of Charlottesville, Va., served gallantly with