Restored to favor, Stengel was reappointed general of brigade on 1 March 1795. Promoted to general of division on 13 June, he was transferred to command the cavalry of the Army of Italy. At the Battle of Mondovì on 21 April 1796 he was seriously wounded in the arm while leading a charge against the Sardinian Army. On 28 April he died in Carassonne following a surgery in which his arm was amputated. He was buried in the church of San Giovanni in Lupazzanio beside the altar "A cornu epistulae" (at the right side).