the South Carolina troops during the great war. He was born at Charleston, S. C., June 3, 1847, and, in 1864, at the age of seventeen years, enlisted at Spartanburg in Company B of Major Ballinger's First battalion South Carolina reserves. He was engaged in active service along the coast, guarding the Charleston & Savannah railroad, and had his first experience in battle at Honey Hill. He participated in the battle of Tulifinny Bridge, where the arsenal cadets fought behind the railroad embankment as breastworks, was wounded in the leg at the Combahee river and was in several skirmishes on the Coosawhatchie and Pocotaligo rivers. J. Stuart Hanckel, brother of the foregoing, enlisted in 1861 in the Palmetto Guards of Charleston, S. C., first stationed at Morris island and, after the fall of Fort Sumter, permitted by the governor, as a mark of special distinction, to occupy the fort. Subsequently the company was divided and Hanckel served with the part which entered the army of Northern Virginia, fighting at First Manassas, and giving up his life at Sharpsburg.
John T. Hargrove, a well-known business man of Norfolk, was born in Princess Anne county, Va., September 29, 1842. He is the son of James Hargrove, a native of the same county, born in 1803, who died in 1880, and was the son of Daniel Hargrove, a soldier of the war of 1812. His father and grandfather were both farmers in Princess Anne county. His mother, Martha Fentress, daughter of Slope Fentress, of the same county, was born about 1821 and died in 1887. He entered the Confederate service in the spring of 1862 as a private in Company C of the Fifteenth Virginia regiment, subsequently incorporated in the Fifth regiment. He served in the campaigns and engagements of his command until he was captured at the battle of Luray in September, 1864, after which he was confined at Point Lookout until a considerable time after the close of the war. He participated in the battles of the Peninsular campaign against McClellan, Second Manassas, Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Yellow Tavern, Luray and other minor engagements. He was twice wounded—once in the leg on the day that Gen. J. E. B. Stuart was fatally wounded at Yellow Tavern, and again in the side at Brandy Station. He reached home from the military prison camp, June 27, 1865, and during the next few years found occupation upon the farm. Then he was employed for a time in a grocery store at Princess Anne Court House, after which he removed to Norfolk and embarked in the grocery trade independently in 1873. Since then he has devoted himself entirely to this business, with, it is pleasing to note, gratifying success. Mr. Hargrove maintains a membership in Pickett-Buchanan camp. He was married March 27, 1879, to Miss Mollie E. Frost, of Norfolk, and they have six children.
Isaac R. Harkrader, of Wytheville, was in the Confederate service throughout the war, associated with the Twenty-third Virginia battalion and the brigade of Gen. John Echols. He was born near Wytheville, May 29, 1834, and, at the secession of Virginia, enlisted as a private in Company B, Twenty-third battalion, Virginia infantry. He was assigned to duty as wagonmaster for the battalion and he served faithfully and efficiently in this capacity until the final disbandment of his command. His point of view of the military operations was somewhat different from that of the boys in
